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From: Caroline Letkeman <carolinel@telus.net>
Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
Subject: Fair Use/Fair Game--Response to Ava Paquette
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2002 15:49:21 -0800
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Caroline Letkeman
104-9275 Mary Street
Chilliwack, B. C.
Canada V2P 4H5
carolinel@telus.net
February 8, 2002
Ava Paquette
Moxon & Kobrin
3055 Wilshire Boulevard
Suite 900
Los Angeles, California 90010
AMPaquette@aol.com
RE: http://www.entheta.ca/caroline/
Decoding Scientology Propaganda
Fair Use/Fair Game
Dear Ms. Paquette:
I have become aware of correspondence between yourself and Scott Duncan,
coordinator
for a network that hosts
http://www.entheta.ca/caroline/,
"Decoding Scientology Propaganda." As I state on the site
introduction:
This site is a critical summary of my exploration into Scientology's
doctrine,
its origins, and the symbols Scientology uses to represent their
organization.
It is published under Fair Use and in the public interest.
Your e-mail of January 23 to Mr. Duncan and his response are webbed here:
http://www.entheta.ca/caroline/paquette-o-gram.opnx.
You allege in your letter that I am guilty of some 58 infringements of the
copyrights
and trademarks of your Scientology corporate clients.
It is terribly dismissive of you, and bad faith, but not unexpected, that
you
did not send a copy of your letter to me. You sought to have my voice against
Scientology's impious practices shuddered into silence without even advising
me
of your attempt. You treat me this way as directed because I'm fair game.
Your letter is, of course, very similar to an e-mail letter dated August 6
2001 that Helena Kobrin of your office sent me, making a similar set of
allegations
of infringement. I responded to Ms. Kobrin's charges by letter August 14,
2001,
and have been awaiting Ms. Kobrin's response ever since. Now you too act as
if
my letter, in which I explained to Ms. Kobrin why her charges were without
merit
and false, didn't exist.
So that all parties know what my earlier response to your office's charges
was, I am including it here in its entirety:
-----Original Message-----
From: Caroline Letkeman [mailto:carolinel@mediaone.net]
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 4:54 PM
To: HKKOBRIN@aol.com
Subject: RE: Infringement
Dear Ms. Kobrin,
I received your July 5, 2001 e-mail, but as you state, AT & T
broadband
shut down the site within hours. AT & T's actions on dealing with
complaints
such as yours is not within my personal control. I do not construe their
action
as a legitimate endorsement of the merits of your complaint.
I believe your July 5 2001 and August 6 2001 complaints of copyright and
trademark
infringement are without merit. The legal cases you mention do not apply in
this
situation as my site is completely non-commercial. The Decoding Scientology
Propaganda
site is posted lawfully and all content falls well within the parameters
accorded
me under Fair Use. At the bottom of each page is a link to a legal statement
and
disclaimer which clearly and prominently denies any affiliation with your
client.
Your clients' marks are also noted as registered and links are provided with
these
marks that also go to the legal and disclaimer page. I will paste the text of
that page below for your convenience in review.
Nevertheless, as a good faith gesture, I made additional modifications on
the
images following your July 5 2001 complaint. These modifications were
completed
prior to publishing the site at aiur.org.
Thank you for your willingness to provide your client's copyright
registrations.
Please send by e-mail or US Post. I look forward to their receipt and review.
Sincerely,
Caroline Letkeman
---Text of legalese.html follows:---
Legal and Disclaimer
Important Notice
The content of this site is critical to Scientology. It is neither
affiliated
with nor sponsored by any Scientology organization. Scientology's web sites:
www.scientology.org
or bonafidescientology.org
Trademark Information
The names Scientology ® and Dianetics ® are owned by the Religious
Technology Center ® (RTC). Scientology's list of their trademarks and
service
marks can be found here:
http://www.scientology.org/tmnotice.htm
The use of trademarked names on the Decoding Scientology Propaganda web
site
are covered in Title 15, section 1125, subsection (c), which can be reviewed
at:
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/15/1125.html
In extract:
(4) The following shall not be actionable under this section:
(A) Fair use of a famous mark by another person in comparative commercial
advertising
or promotion to identify the competing goods or services of the owner of the
famous
mark.
(B) Noncommercial use of a mark.
(C) All forms of news reporting and news commentary. The Decoding Scientology
Propaganda web site is a non-commercial web site and consists almost entirely
of critical commentary of Scientology and its propaganda.
To continue Title 15, Section 1125 in extract:
(4) The following shall not be actionable under this section:
(A) Fair use of a famous mark by another person in comparativecommercial
advertising
or promotion to identify the competing goods or services of the owner of the
famous
mark.
(B) Noncommercial use of a mark.
(C) All forms of news reporting and news commentary
(D) Cyber piracy prevention
Copyright and Fair Use
The use of Scientology material on this web site is covered under United
States
Code, Title 17 Copyrights, Chapter 1 Subject Matter and Scope of Copyright,
Section
107 Limitations on Exclusive Rights: Fair Use, which can be reviewed here:
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html
Disclaimer
The views and opinions stated within this web site are those of the author
or authors which wrote them and may not reflect the views and opinions of the
ISP or account user which hosts this web site. The opinions may or may not be
those of the Chairman of Organized Crime Civilian Response ®.
Neither this web page, nor this web site, nor any of the individuals
mentioned
herein assisting to educate the public about the dangers of Scientology and
their
false and misleading propaganda are members of or representatives of the
Scientology
organization.
If you or a loved one has suffered abuse at the hands of Scientology and
are
seeking help, I recommend that you contact:
The Lisa McPherson Trust
33 North Fort Harrison Avenue
Clearwater, FL 33755
Voice: (727) 467- 9335
Fax: (727) 467-9345
For comments or questions about this web site or the material contained
herein,
I welcome your e-mail.
--end text legalese.html--- |
To facilitate discussion, I will include here the US Code Section cited
above:
Sec. 107. - Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use
Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a
copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or
phonorecords
or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as
criticism,
comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom
use),
scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. In determining
whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the
factors
to be considered shall include -
(1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of
a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
(2) the nature of the copyrighted work;
(3) the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the
copyrighted
work as a whole; and
(4) the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the
copyrighted
work.
You state in your January 23 letter that my unauthorized use of
copyrighted
materials of your named "clients" (Hubbard Library, CSI, RTC and
BPI)
violates United States and Canadian copyright law. This is, as you know, a
willful
and professionally inexcusable lie. My unauthorized use of the copyrighted
materials
I used not only does not violate U.S. and Canadian copyright law, it is
expressly
permitted by both countries' copyright law. As a copyright attorney you know
this,
and as a Scientologist you know you lie because I'm fair game. As a
Scientologist
attorney, of course, you are paid to lie.
To facilitate discussion, I will include here the relevant section from
the
Canadian Copyright Act:
29.1 Fair dealing for the purpose of criticism or review does not infringe
copyright if the following are mentioned:
(a) the source; and
(b) if given in the source, the name of the
(i) author, in the case of a work,
(ii) performer, in the case of a performer's performance,
(iii) maker, in the case of a sound recording, or
(iv) broadcaster, in the case of a communication signal.
It is by both wog ® and your Scientology standards abundantly clear
that
I am a critic involved in criticism. I am a widely known reviewer of
Scientology,
having spent 24 years inside studying its various components; I am a scholar,
having, after leaving Scientology, taken up scholarship, an impossible
activity
inside; I am an educator, educating wogs® and Scientologists alike in
decoding
the Scientology cult's propaganda, including, and particularly, decoding your
cult's symbols in your propaganda campaign. Some of Scientology's symbols
requiring
decoding are, ineluctably, the registered trademarks you say I've infringed.
I
have in all instances, as fair dealing necessitates, mentioned on Decoding
Scientology
Propaganda the source and author of the images or other copyrighted material
used.
Scientology's agents on alt.religion.scientology, as I'm certain you know,
identify me as a "critic" and lump me in with other "
critics"
of $cientology. Thus there is no justification for your not acknowledging in
your
legal threat letter my being a very active, practically prolific,
internationally
known, and award-winning critic. In fact it was my award-winning criticism
that
brought David Miscavige and his Scientology underlings to first fair game me.
If you had acknowledged my being a critic involved in criticism, of what is
so
extraordinarily criticizable, you would naturally have had to acknowledge my
fair
use right to display the copyrighted materials of your clients that I did
display
for criticism. Criticizing your images, marks and symbols, which is what on
Decoding
Scientology Propaganda I do criticize, permits, indeed requires, my fair use
display
of your copyrighted images, marks and symbols. You must pretend I'm not the
critic
I am in order to ignore the critic's fair use right I so obviously possess,
in
order to be able to use the law to harass and to fair game Mr. Duncan and me.
Being in truth considered a critic by Miscavige and the other people
running
Scientology, per Hubbard scriptures, I am also considered to be and treated
as
a criminal, as a SP. Your bosses' clear intention is to have me continue to
be
treated by Scientology and Scientologists as a critic, and fair gamed, while
you
pretend I'm not a critic in order to deny me the fair use right critics are
granted
by copyright law. You lie about me to make me fair game so you can lie about
me.
Due to your policy and practice of treating all critics of your enterprise
as criminals, that is to say, as your fair game targets to be silenced,
ruined
utterly and destroyed, the number of critics criticizing what in Scientology
calls
out for criticism is tragically reduced. Thus those critics remaining and
still
willing to criticize your cult have an even greater fair use need, purpose,
and
right than do critics of an entity which does not fair game them.
The Berne Convention, which you cite to, states:
Article 10
(1) It shall be permissible to make quotations from a work which has
already
been lawfully made available to the public, provided that their making is
compatible
with fair practice, and their extent does not exceed that justified by the
purpose,
including quotations from newspaper articles and periodicals in the form of
press
summaries.
(2) It shall be a matter for legislation in the countries of the Union, and
for
special agreements existing or to be concluded between them, to permit the
utilization,
to the extent justified by the purpose, of literary or artistic works by way
of
illustration in publications, broadcasts or sound or visual recordings for
teaching,
provided such utilization is compatible with fair practice.
(3) Where use is made of works in accordance with the preceding paragraphs of
this Article, mention shall be made of the source, and of the name of the
author,
if it appears thereon.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/treaties/berne/10.html
Thus, in addition to the U.S. and Canadian copyright laws, the Berne
Convention
also expressly permits my use of the subject copyrighted materials. Clearly
my
use of the Scientology copyrighted materials I used is compatible with fair
use,
fair dealing and fair practice. The extent of my use of your images, marks
and
symbols is in perfect agreement with the purpose for their inclusion -
discussion,
criticism, scholarship and education. As an aside, if your clients practiced
fair
practice instead of fair game, there wouldn't be much of anything about them
to
criticize.
As you know, since you use this law so extensively in your particular part
on the Scientology legal front in its war on us wogs ®, in accord with
the
Berne Convention, both the U.S. and Canada have copyright legislation to
expressly
permit, for purposes identical to the purposes of the Decoding Scientology
Propaganda
site, the utilization of copyrighted works like those of your clients by way
of
illustration for teaching. As I stated above, I have in every instance
provided
the source of the copyrighted work and, wherever available, its author.
The threat in your letter to Mr. Duncan that he may be liable for 58
copyright
infringements you tell him I'm guilty of, when it is obvious to you, being a
copyright
attorney, that I have not infringed any copyrights on my Decoding Scientology
Propaganda site, and that my use of your clients' subject copyrighted
materials
is expressly permitted, indeed encouraged, by national and international
copyright
law, is just further baseless, criminal fair game against me.
Your standard Scientology "copyright infringement" attack is but
a part of a concerted fair game campaign against me personally, operated, as
you
are, by David Miscavige. As you know, the various organization entities
involved
have refused, without a shred of justification, to return the money each of
them
ripped off from me, despite my having advised Miscavige personally. In fact,
not
one of the various organization entities involved, including Miscavige
himself,
except for a covert letter from IAS, even acknowledged my demand.
As you're also aware I'm sure, this past year Miscavige ordered my
daughter
turned against me and disconnected from me. She has been brought to view me
as
one of your "suppressive persons," as someone to be hated and, as
is
clear in your latest "suppression" promo, shattered. It's obviously
a term determined by Scientology, but the use of the term is strangely
fitting,
since shattered families, shattered minds and shattered hearts are the
product
of the application of Scientology, certainly under the direction of David
Miscavige.
If my own daughter, whom I love with all my heart, can be brought to hate and
fair game me, how much greater is your hatred and how much deadlier your fair
game, you who are paid to hate and fair game me.
I noted a pronouncement by "CO OSA" Mike Rinder in an article
entitled
"The IAS: The Nemesis of Suppression" in a recent Impact Magazine:
We
won't stop until those SPs have been shattered ... Because we do have the
tech
and the truth. Rinder directs the shattering to "terminals," to
living,
breathing, loving human beings, identified as "SPs." Rinder employs
lawyers like those in your office for this campaign to shatter those SPs like
me. Scientology, and all you Scientologists, as Rinder affirms, base your
shattering
of wogs ® whom you deem to be "SPs" on your possession of the
tech
and the truth.
You and Scientology's entire SP-shattering war machine will never stop,
because
the determination you have-to never stop until the SPs like me are shattered-
is
based on your possession of the tech and the truth. Since as a Scientologist
you
cannot acknowledge that you do not have the tech (to do what
Hubbard/Scientology
claim, of course) nor the truth, you must participate in the shattering of
SPs,
as I say, like me. The difference in the life of every Scientologist, and the
difference in the activities of every Scientology organization, that
possessing
"the tech and the truth" makes, is that you get to shatter SPs, in
fact
you get to conspire, organize and even get paid to shatter SPs.
Everything that you, and Miscavige and the rest of the Scientology
operation,
have done and everything that all of you have not done signals that you are
ratcheting
up fair game. You personally are working to take away my voice in the world
against
fair game, and you threaten me just because I am fair game. I consider what
you
are doing tortious and criminal, and I ask you to act immediately to withdraw
yourself from your cult's fair game campaign against me.
I believe it is your nasty habit, pursuant to the Scientology legal
doctrine
of using to law to harass, to shudder people and ISPs into silence with just
the
sort of baseless copyright infringement-joint tortfeasor threat you make
against
Mr. Duncan. It is no wonder your office and the Scientology cult you "
represent"
are known across the web as Internet terrorists. Your reputation for making
baseless,
but very real, threats to suppress and destroy wogs' ® fair use rights,
for
which, with the requisite malevolent intention, the law can be very easily
used,
supports my certainty that your threats against me are baseless, and
convinces
me of the rightness of standing up to your clients' suppression and their
continuing
effort to destroy me, and destroy fair use for everyone.
You state that your "clients have obtained numerous permanent
injunctions
concerning Internet infringements of copyrighted works around the
world."
You are boasting about the results of Scientology's campaign to destroy
copyright
rights. Your cult's injunctions, judgments and other judicial rulings against
free speech advocates and activists, and scholars and critics like myself,
are
the results of the fundamental Scientology legal doctrine of using the law to
harass, and employing lawyers like you who are willing to use it for that
illicit
purpose. Scientology's legal triumphs are nothing that decent Scientologists,
if any exist, can ever be proud of.
The Virginia US District Court case, the result in which you are so proud
of,
is famous, not for the judgment the Scientology organization obtained against
the free speech defendant, but for the US District Court Judge's
identification,
and clearly her condemnation, of your cult's purpose in bringing that
copyright
infringement action:
Although [Scientology] brought the complaint under traditional secular
concepts
of copyright and trade secret law, it has become clear that a much broader
motivation
prevailed--the stifling of criticism and dissent of the religious practices
of
Scientology and the destruction of its opponents.
You now pursue the same unlawful purpose for your copyright infringement
"
case" against me-to stifle my criticism and dissent and to destroy me.
You also boast of the Scientology cult's obtaining "assessed damages
in
the amount of $75,000 against a Mr. Henson for copyright infringement of a
single
work on the Internet." Again that is nothing any decent Scientologist
can
ever be proud of. The $75,000 signifies the reality of your cult's unlawful
litigation
purpose, that you really will pay millions to destroy someone for "
infringing"
a single work, that the threat of being destroyed by the Scientology "
legal"
juggernaut is very real. It is widely known that lawyers for the Scientology
cult
were able to get U.S. District Court Judge Whyte in the Henson case to ignore
the real and illegal purpose for bringing the action, and to strip the
defendant
of his defenses and witnesses.
Perhaps Judge Whyte in fact did know what Judge Brinkema in the Virginia
case
discovered, that Scientology was using copyright law and his courtroom for
the
unlawful "stifling of criticism and dissent of the religious practices
of
Scientology and the destruction of its opponents." But whether Judge
Whyte
knew of Scientology's real and illegal motivation or not does not make your
cult's
litigation motivation any less illegal.
I believe that your clients' wins you boast of in the European cases you
referred
to are also ill gotten. They are similarly successes for Scientology and
Scientologists
no decent people will ever be proud of. They are proof that your intention,
your
clients' intention, and the intention Hubbard installed in the Scientology
system,
of stifling of criticism and dissent destroying your opponents, is global in
scope
and menace.
But even with your global army of lawyers and Scientologists all on-
purpose
carrying out command intention to stifle criticism and dissent and destroy
your
opponents, your "wins" are not even pyrrhic victories, but complete
lies. Your Dutch case, which must have cost millions, to stifle and destroy
writer
Karin Spaink and her ISP, XS4ALL, resulted in a dismissal of all charges, and
complete judicial support for Ms. Spaink's fair use right to display or
publish
everything your cult and you lawyers tried to suppress.
Through their courageous and successful fair use defense against your
Scientology
cult's attempts to destroy fair use rights, Ms. Spaink has become a global
fair
use inspiration, and XS4ALL a freedom-fighting legend among ISPs. I think
that
http://www.xs4all.nl/~kspaink/fishman/ot8a.html
on Ms. Spaink's site is an excellent example of the authority and extent of
wogs'
® fair use right. The Dutch court has clearly permitted Ms. Spaink to use
the totality of this document, the copyright of which is "owned" by
your cult clients, in her criticism of them.
Similarly your reliance on Rogers v. Koons, 751 F.Supp. 474, 478 (S.D.N.Y.
1990) aff'd, 960 F.2d 301 (2nd Cir.), cert. denied, 506 U.S. 934 (1992) to
support
your threat to Mr. Duncan that the reproduction of a single photograph in its
entirety constitutes copyright infringement is completely bogus. You know
very
well, and withhold as key facts of the case, that defendant Koons produced an
edition of three sculptures, selling for over $100,000 each, from the single
photograph
taken by plaintiff Rogers. And you know equally well that my Decoding
Scientology
Propaganda site and all of my use of your clients' images, marks and symbols
are
absolutely non-commercial. Rogers v. Koons, in fact, only enhances my fair
use
right to do all the things you improperly use that case to suppress and to
threaten
me for.
You complain that words and symbols I used on my Decoding Scientology
Propaganda
site for purposes of discussion, criticism, scholarship and education are
identical
to the form in which they are used as Scientology trademarks and service
marks.
Naturally this must be the case, indeed is necessitated by the fact that it
is
these very marks which I discuss, criticize and explain on the site.
Moreover,
as you certainly know, Scientology has a policy and practice of suppressing
criticism,
scholarship and education about itself by, among othertechniques, attacking
critics
and educators for not using "source" materials, or for "
forging"
or "altering" " source" materials, or taking the part of
Scientology
being discussed or criticized "out of context." Thus critics of
Scientology,
or people educating others about Scientology, have an even greater need and
fair
use right to display Scientology's words or symbols, as much as is practical,
in an identical form to how they are used by the cult, than the fair use need
of critics of wog ® groups which do not, as your cult does, suppress
criticism
and attack critics.
You also complain that my use of these numerous marks is not authorized by
your clients, and therefore may constitute copyright infringement. Of course
your
clients don't authorize my use of their copyrighted materials or their many
marks.
Your clients seek to use the law to suppress and destroy discussion,
criticism,
scholarship and education. My legal authorization comes from Canadian, U.S.
and
international copyright law, which supports and encourages discussion,
criticism,
scholarship and education, and my use of your clients' images or marks does
not
in any way or instance constitute copyright infringement.
The following passage from the Chicago Manual of Style: The Essential
Guide
for Writers, Editors, and Publishers, 14th edition, University of Chicago
Press,
1993, has been a helpful guide for my fair use decisions:
The right of fair use is a valuable one to scholarship, and it should not
be
allowed to decay through the failure of scholars to employ it boldly.
Furthermore,
excessive caution can be dangerous if the copyright owner proves
uncooperative.
Far from establishing good faith and protecting the author from suit or
unreasonable
demands, a permission request may have just the opposite effect. The act of
seeking
permission establishes that the author feels permission is needed, and the
tacit
admission may be damaging to the author's cause.
All of your Scientology clients are known world wide as utterly
uncooperative
copyright holders; thus wogs ® such as Ms. Spaink or myself involved in
Scientology
scholarship must employ our right of fair use with utter boldness. I needed
no
authorization from your clients to use any of their copyrighted materials in
the
manner, form or context in which I used them, because of my fair use right,
and
because it would be damaging to my cause, certainly with your clients being
who
and what they are, to seek authorizations I didn't need. Since it is your
cult's
clear and command intention to suppress and destroy all fair use rights, and
hence
all criticism, scholarship and education, for every wog ®, not to mention
Scientologists, I also exhort my fellow wog ® critics, scholars and
educators,
not just by example but by active appeal, to likewise "employ our right
of
fair use with utter boldness."
You say that my fair use display of the Scientology cult's images and
marks
could result in a depreciation of the cult's, or some corporate entity's,
goodwill.
This is a virtual impossibility. Whatever "goodwill" Scientology,
David
Miscavige, Scientologists, and Scientology agents like yourself, enjoy for
your
Scientology operations and associations, is not goodwill at all, as the law
considers
goodwill, but a cloak for bad acts and evil intentions. Any criticism of
Scientology,
as it is now operates, necessarily "depreciates" your cult's
claimed
goodwill, because its goodwill, and the goodwill of all of you, is a lie, a
part
of the continuing fraud, and because any criticism necessarily must see
through
your cloak to your bad acts and real intentions.
Scientology and its founder are now known by me, and are known around the
world,
to be, exactly what Judge Paul Breckenridge identified in his judgment in
your
cult's first lawsuit against Gerry Armstrong, Los Angeles Superior Court case
no. C420153:
In addition to violating and abusing its own members civil-rights, the
organization
over the years with its "Fair Game" doctrine has harassed and
abused
those persons not in the Church whom it perceives as enemies. The
organization
clearly is schizophrenic and paranoid, and the bizarre combination seems to
be
a reflection of its founder LRH. The evidence portrays a man who has been
virtually
a pathological liar when it comes to his history, background, and
achievements.
The writings and documents in evidence additionally reflect his egoism,
greed,
avarice, lust for power, and vindictiveness and aggressiveness against
persons
perceived by him to be disloyal or hostile.
I am of course aware that you, and the whole Scientology machine, will
treat
me especially suppressively and subject me to your vilest level of fair game
because
of my closeness and connection to Gerry Armstrong. I am aware that Mr.
Miscavige
must have every Scientologist, and certainly you lawyers, view each instance
of
Mr. Armstrong's assistance to me in defense against your legal fair game, as
a
violation of the "judgment" you've obtained against him in
California.
Since I encourage, in fact induce him to help me, all of you must view me as
acting
in concert with him and thus subject to the same judgment.
I have seen that the "judgment" your office, under Mr.
Miscavige's
direction of course, obtained against Mr. Armstrong, and continues to try to
enforce,
enjoins and restrains Mr. Armstrong from directly or indirectly discussing,
or
even mentioning, Scientology or Scientologists or any of their lawyers,
private
investigators, etc. I have also seen that your judgment enjoins and restrains
"persons acting in concert" with Mr. Armstrong from directly or
indirectly
discussing, or even mentioning, Scientology or Scientologists or any of their
lawyers, private investigators, etc. I am just such a person, acting in
concert
with Mr. Armstrong in every way I can to facilitate and participate in the
discussion
of your cult, of its lawyers, of Hubbard, of Miscavige, of Scientologists and
your PIs. You, on the other hand, are a personal "beneficiary" of
this
"judgment" against Mr. Armstrong, a " beneficiary" of his
enforced silence, and you are one of the persons you do not permit him to
directly
or indirectly discuss.
I have seen that your judgment against Mr. Armstrong enjoins and restrains
him, and persons acting in concert with him, from, directly or indirectly,
[f]acilitating
in any manner the creation, publication, broadcast, writing, filming, audio
recording,
video recording, electronic recording or reproduction of any kind of any
book,
article, film, television program, radio program, treatment, declaration,
screenplay
or other literary, artistic or documentary work of any kind which discusses,
refers
to or mentions Scientology or your cult, its cultists, or lawyers or agents
like
yourself. Again, I advise you, and all of you, that I am acting in concert
with
Mr. Armstrong in every way possible, and moreover that it is my sincere
intention
to do what I can to facilitate and participate in a discussion of all of you,
and my Scientology experiences and Mr. Armstrong's Scientology experiences,
in
as many of the media your cult proscribes as will take our words.
It is my understanding that although your "judgment" restrains
and
enjoins Mr. Armstrong from discussing his now 33 years of experiences in
relation
to Scientology, your cult, Scientologists and their agents of all kinds, you
and
the rest of the Scientologists, all the organizations and all the agents
insist
that the judgment permits any or all of you to say or publish whatever they
want
about Mr. Armstrong or his experiences, no matter how untrue, perverse or
defamatory.
It is also my understanding that you, Scientology, all Scientologists and all
agents of your cult insist that your judgment prohibits Mr. Armstrong from
responding
in any way to whatever you or any of you say or publish about him, again no
matter
how untrue, perverse or defamatory. And it is my understanding that the
Scientology
cult and its lawyers have in fact on multiple occasions prosecuted Mr.
Armstrong
for responding to defend himself from your cult's untrue, perverse and
defamatory
attacks on his reputation, character, livelihood, person and associates.
Clearly then, since I am acting in concert with Mr. Armstrong in every way
possible, you and your Scientology bosses cannot but insist that I am, as the
judgment states, identically restrained and enjoined from discussing our
experiences
in relation to Scientology, your cult, Scientologists and their agents of all
kinds. You also cannot but insist that you, the cult, Scientologists and all
the
agents, like yourself, can say or publish whatever you want about me, no
matter
how untrue, perverse or defamatory, and that I am restrained and enjoined
from
responding to defend myself. Such a "judgment" and concept, of
course,
could not but encourage you, the cult, Scientologists and your agents to say
or
publish all manner of black PR about me, as you all have about Gerry
Armstrong,
just because you believe the judgment permits no response. Although your
California
judgment against Mr. Armstrong incites all of you to fair game me more than
you
would without it, since it's a license to fair game me with impunity, I still
will violate it because acting in concert with Mr. Armstrong is worth your
increased
deadly threat.
I have seen that your judgment against Mr. Armstrong enjoins and restrains
him, and persons acting in concert with him, from, directly or indirectly,
assisting
any person who has a claim against any Scientology entity, any Scientologist
entity,
or any entity agent, or is even thinking about a claim against any of these
entities.
Clearly I am such a person. I have a claim against the Scientology cult for
the
more than $61,000 USD that various of its component organizations ripped off
from
me, with false promises and mental degradation, over a 27 year period. I have
a claim against your cult and your leaders for their outrageous conduct,
egregious
lying and the criminal defrauding of me of 24 years of my life. I have a
claim
against your cult for your alienation of my daughter pursuant to your noxious
disconnection doctrine. I have a claim for the Scientology cult's delivery to
me of my auditing files and all other personal records of my involvement in
the
cult. I will take this opportunity to renew these claims to you as an agent
of
the Scientology cult and its components. The Scientology cult, and certainly
you
as their agent, have thus far only responded with the fair game Judge
Breckenridge
identified and condemned eighteen years ago.
Clearly you and your cult will insist that Mr. Armstrong is restrained and
enjoined by your "judgment" from directly or indirectly assisting
me
in my claims. Clearly too, because I am acting in concert in every way with
Mr.
Armstrong, you and your cult must also insist that I am restrained and
enjoined
from directly or indirectly assisting myself in my own claims. You must
insist
that I am restrained and enjoined from directly or indirectly assisting Mr.
Armstrong,
since he has his own multitude of claims against your cult for twenty years
of
your fair game and your ongoing criminal conspiracy to destroy his human and
civil
rights. And you must insist that I am restrained and enjoined from directly
or
indirectly assisting any other wog ® who has been victimized, targeted or
abused by your cult and thus has a claim against any of you.
I have seen that your "judgment" against Mr. Armstrong enjoins
and
restrains him, and persons acting in concert with him, from, directly or
indirectly,
assisting any person defending herself from attacks from any Scientology
entity,
any Scientologist entity, or any entity agent, or even in any adverse legal
relationship
to these Scientology entities. I am just such a person, a target of another
of
your cult's notorious fair game campaigns. You, Ms. Paquette, are threatening
me and executing this legal attack upon me as part of this fair game
campaign,
and I must defend myself against your attacks and your cult's campaign. I am
aware
that your cult clients must insist that by your California "judgment,
"
Mr. Armstrong may not, directly or indirectly, assist me in any way because
I'm
a defendant against your fair game campaign directed at me, that I may not
assist
him, directly or indirectly, because he's a defendant against your fair game
campaign
directed at him, that neither of us may, directly or indirectly, assist
anyone
else who might be trying to defend himself or herself against any other of
your
fair game campaigns, and that I may not, directly or indirectly, assist
myself
in my own defense against your fair game campaign directed at me.
I have seen that your office and the Scientology cult have obtained orders
against Mr. Armstrong requiring his payment to your cult of $50,000 USD per
mention
of his Scientology-related experiences or any mention of you "
beneficiaries"
in his defense from your black propaganda and fair game attacks. I have seen
that
your office and Scientology have obtained orders in enforcement of your
"
judgment" against Mr. Armstrong, which jail and fine him for mentions of
you "beneficiaries" in his defense from your black propaganda and
fair
game attacks. I have also seen that your office and your cult have obtained
multiple
warrants to have Mr. Armstrong hunted down and arrested by law enforcement
units
for his mentioning of you "beneficiaries" in his defense from your
black
propaganda and fair game attacks.
I have seen that your office and your cult have obtained orders against
Mr.
Armstrong requiring his payment to your cult of $50,000 USD per instance of
assisting
anyone, directly or indirectly, of course, in the person's defense from your
fair
game attacks. I have seen that your office and Scientology have obtained
orders
in enforcement of your "judgment" against Mr. Armstrong, which jail
and fine him for any instance of assisting anyone, directly or indirectly, in
the person's defense from your fair game attacks. And I have seen that your
office
and your cult have obtained multiple warrants to have Mr. Armstrong hunted
down
and arrested by law enforcement units for instances of assisting wogs ®,
directly
or indirectly, in their defense from your fair game attacks.
Since I am acting in concert with Mr. Armstrong in every possible way, but
particularly in every wogs' ® defense from your fair game attacks, you
must
insist that I am subject to the same $50,000 in " damages" per
mention
or per act of assistance. You all must also insist that I am subject to the
same
fines and imprisonment for any mention of Scientology or any of you judgment
"beneficiaries"
or for assisting any wog ® who is defending against your fair game
attacks.
And you must insist that for any mention of Scientology or any of you
judgment
"beneficiaries" or for assisting any wog ® who is defending
against
your fair game attacks I be hunted down and arrested by law enforcement.
I am certain, however, that in Canada, such prohibitive conditions,
stripping
someone of the right to defend himself and others against your dangerous and
criminal
fair game conspiracy, by stripping him of his basic human and civil rights,
would
be ruled to be illegal, and judicially impermissible. If your California
"judgment"
were not clearly and beyond argument illegal here, you would, without a
doubt,
have long since sued Mr. Armstrong into oblivion. But he has been discussing
your
cult, your cult's founder, its leaders, David Miscavige, cult lawyers, cult
PIs
and your cultists, all of the "beneficiaries, " plus discussing his
experiences, plus assisting victims and targets of your cult's fair game
campaigns
like myself, here in Canada in exercise of his basic human and civil rights
for
almost five years.
Certainly your Scientology cult has the necessary funds to buy the
necessary
corrupt Canadian lawyers to prosecute in Canada, here in Chilliwack, B.C.,
all
the judgment enforcement actions you could possibly manufacture against Mr.
Armstrong.
Therefore I conclude two things: Scientology's legal/intel apparatus has not
been
able to buy the necessary judges in Canada/B.C./Chilliwack; and that even the
most corrupt lawyers' loonies can buy here will not use the unbought Canadian
courts to enforce your "judgment" just because it is so clearly
illegal
and unenforceable.
I am therefore completely confident that your cult and you cult lawyers
have
no legal basis whatsoever in Canada to prevent Mr. Armstrong from assisting
me
in my defense against your fair game attacks and in your fair game "
legal"
activities. I am equally confident that you have no legal basis to prevent
him
in Canada from discussing, in any medium, any or all of you Scientology
"beneficiaries"
and any or all of his experiences with or knowledge of Scientology, Hubbard
or
any of you. I am also equally confident that because your "
injunction"
is illegal and unenforceable as to Mr. Armstrong in Canada, it is equally
illegal
and unenforceable as to anyone such as myself acting in concert with him.
I am so completely confident that your "injunction," which on
its
face prohibits me from acting in concert with Mr. Armstrong, is illegal here
in
Canada, and that any efforts by your Scientology cult to enforce such an
illegal
injunction against me here would be themselves illegal, that I urge every wog
® who is a target of your cult and its fair game machine to act in
concert
with Mr. Armstrong in every way in our mutual defense, and for our mutual
pressing
of our claims against the cult. We are a class, targets of Scientology's, and
your illegal policy and practice of using the law to harass. I urge all of
us,
every wog ® who has ever been threatened or felt threatened by
Scientology's
use of the law, or by its actions outside the law or outside normal wog ®
bounds of decency, to act in concert with Gerry Armstrong.
That all your "legal" actions and "wins" in California
in restraining, enjoining and silencing Gerry Armstrong are illegal here in
Canada,
which, as I point out, they obviously are, convinces me that the "
legal"
actions you took and the success you boast of against Keith Henson in
California
may very well be similarly illegal in other jurisdictions. Indeed, your
"legal"
actions and your successes in California against Mr. Armstrong, Mr. Henson
and
your other wog ® adversaries may very well be illegal even in California.
Because, however, your cult and you cult lawyers are still able to use the
law in California to harass, and specifically to enforce your otherwise
illegal
"injunction" against people such as myself who act in concert with
Mr.
Armstrong, I will not enter California at this time. I will not at this time
risk
being ruined at $50,000 USD per mention of my cult experience, like the
mentions
I make on a.r.s. I will not risk $50,000 per direct or indirect assist I
might
give to any of Scientology's myriad victims or fair game targets. Nor will I
risk
at this time being, as I would be in California, hunted down, arrested,
jailed
and fined. Obviously there is a problem in a State, or in the U.S. itself,
where
judges permit their courtrooms and their powers to be used by the criminal
Scientology
cult, as in the Armstrong and Henson cases, to harass.
I will therefore, as a citizen, not submit to the courts of California but
take this matter of this extraordinary threat in California, and for that
matter
in the whole U.S.A., against me, against my most basic and valuable human
rights,
and against the wogs ® with whom I act in concert against the menace
which
is your client, to Canadian and American legislative and diplomatic bodies,
to
the United Nations, to world courts and to forums at the highest
international
level accessible to me.
I believe that you and the cult leaders you represent will be forced to
acknowledge
that the "injunction" which prohibits me, or anyone, acting in
concert
with Mr. Armstrong from, directly or indirectly as ever, discussing any of
you,
or your cult, or Hubbard, or anyone's Scientology knowledge or years of
experiences,
or prohibits me from assisting wogs ® anywhere against your cult and all
of
you, is illegal. I believe you all look extremely and willfully petty and
foolish
for not having already acknowledged the unenforceability and illegality of
your
effort to restrain and enjoin wogs ® such as I acting in concert with Mr.
Armstrong.
When you acknowledge, of course, that anything wogs ® acting in
concert
with Mr. Armstrong say or publish about you, your clients, etc., and that
anything
wogs ® acting in concert with him do to assist their fellow wogs ®
against
any or all of you, is not, and cannot be, legally restrained and enjoined,
you
must perforce acknowledge that Mr. Armstrong's identical actions cannot be
legally
restrained and enjoined. He is restrained equally and enjoined equally with
those
wogs ® who act in concert with him if the injunction is legal and legally
enforceable against them, which it is not, and he is equally as completely
unrestrained
and unenjoined as those wogs ® who act in concert with him if the
injunction
is legally unenforceable against them, which it so clearly is.
I believe that Scientology, Scientologists and its lawyers like you know
you
are using the law to prosecute and punish Mr. Armstrong for saying and doing
things
all of you also know he cannot be legally prosecuted and punished for saying
or
doing. And that is precisely what you are doing with me. You pretend to
ignore
my statutory fair use right in order to threaten and black PR me for acts you
know are not violations of your cult's copyrights. You pretend your illegal
California
injunction is legal to shudder me and people like me into not acting in
concert
with Gerry Armstrong in defense against your fair game campaign.
You assert in your January 23 letter to Mr. Duncan that my unauthorized
use
of your clients' trademarks on my Decoding Scientology Propaganda website has
caused Mr. Duncan's name to be falsely associated with your client's
registered
marks and created a likelihood of confusion as to the source or sponsorship
of
this my site in violation of U.S. state and federal law, including the Lanham
Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1125(a), various state and federal laws, in addition to
Canadian law. To facilitate discussion, I will include here the section from
the
Lanham Act you refer to:
Sec. 1125. - False designations of origin, false descriptions, and
dilution
forbidden
(a) Civil action
(1) Any person who, on or in connection with any goods or services, or any
container
for goods, uses in commerce any word, term, name, symbol, or device, or any
combination
thereof, or any false designation of origin, false or misleading description
of
fact, or false or misleading representation of fact, which -
(A) is likely to cause confusion, or to cause mistake, or to deceive as to
the affiliation, connection, or association of such person with another
person,
or as to the origin, sponsorship, or approval of his or her goods, services,
or
commercial activities by another person, or
(B) in commercial advertising or promotion, misrepresents the nature,
characteristics,
qualities, or geographic origin of his or her or another person's goods,
services,
or commercial activities, shall be liable in a civil action by any person who
believes that he or she is or is likely to be damaged by such act.
(2) As used in this subsection, the term ''any person'' includes any State,
instrumentality
of a State or employee of a State or instrumentality of a State acting in his
or her official capacity. Any State, and any such instrumentality, officer,
or
employee, shall be subject to the provisions of this chapter in the same
manner
and to the same extent as any nongovernmental entity.
(3) In a civil action for trade dress infringement under this chapter for
trade
dress not registered on the principal register, the person who asserts trade
dress
protection has the burden of proving that the matter sought to be protected
is
not functional.
I will also repeat, and include here, the Lanham Act section that is
actually
relevant in this matter, and which, to concoct a "basis" your fair
game
"legal" threats, you fail to acknowledge:
Sec. 1125.
(b) Remedies for dilution of famous marks
[ ] (4) The following shall not be actionable under this section:
[ ] (B) Noncommercial use of a mark.
(C) All forms of news reporting and news commentary.
As is made abundantly clear on the Decoding Propaganda site, as I stated
in
my earlier letter to Ms. Kobrin, and as I state throughout this letter to
you,
my use of your clients' marks is for noncommercial criticism, noncommercial
scholarship
and noncommercial education. There is nothing even faintly commercial about
my
site. You ignore this obvious fact, which makes my use of your marks
completely
inactionable, just so you can threaten "legal" action against Mr.
Duncan
and me as part of your fair game campaign.
Your assertion that my fair use of your clients' trademarks on my Decoding
Scientology Propaganda website has caused Mr. Duncan's name to be associated
with
your Scientology cult's marks and created a likelihood of confusion as to the
source or sponsorship of my site, is obviously a barefaced lie. Even if you
meant
that my fair use of your clients' trademarks on my Decoding Scientology
Propaganda
website has caused the site name to be associated with your Scientology
cult's
marks and created a likelihood of confusion as to the source or sponsorship
of
my site, your assertion would still be a lie.
As I state in my letter of August 14, 2001 to Ms. Kobrin, which I have
included
in its entirety above:
At the bottom of each page is a link to a legal
statement and disclaimer which
clearly and prominently denies any affiliation with your client. Your
clients'
marks are also noted as registered and links are provided with these marks
that
also go to the legal and disclaimer page. |
I state very clearly on my legal and disclaimer page on the site, which I
sent
to Ms. Kobrin with my August 14, 2001 letter, and which I include in its
entirety
above:
The content of this site is critical to
Scientology.
It is neither affiliated with nor sponsored by any Scientology organization.
Scientology's
web sites: www.scientology.org or bonafidescientology.org
Trademark Information
The names Scientology ® and Dianetics ® are owned by the Religious
Technology Center ® (RTC). Scientology's list of their trademarks and
service
marks can be found here:
http://www.scientology.org/tmnotice.htm [ ]
The Decoding Scientology Propaganda web site is a non-commercial web site and
consists almost entirely of critical commentary of Scientology and its
propaganda.
Disclaimer [ ]
Neither this web page, nor this web site, nor any of the individuals
mentioned
herein assisting to educate the public about the dangers of Scientology and
their
false and misleading propaganda are members of or representatives of the
Scientology
organization. |
Quite clearly, your assertion that my fair use use of the Scientology
cult's
marks created a likelihood of confusion as to the source or sponsorship of my
site, is a barefaced lie. Even beyond the clear and prominent statements on
the
site, which I have requoted in the preceding paragraph, however, Mr. Duncan
has
added your letter of January 23 and his response very prominently to the
site.
See http://www.entheta.ca/caroline/paquette-o-gram.opnx.
Your own words now on my Decoding Scientology Propaganda site make it
absolutely
clear that none of your Scientology cult clients is the source of my site,
and
none of your cult clients sponsors my site. Your words show that you are
unmistakably
unconfused about who owns and who sponsors my site, and your certainty
concerning
its actual ownership and sponsorship will now be conveyed by your own words
to
anyone who navigates to the site. If, despite what you've stated, you are
actually
not unconfused about who owns and who sponsors my site, please advise me and
I
will ask Mr. Duncan to make this clear as well on the site.
Mr. Duncan's words added to the Decoding Scientology Propaganda site in
his
response to your letter also make it even clearer that none of your
Scientology
cult clients is the source of my site, and none of your cult clients sponsors
my site. Mr. Duncan states, prominently and boldly on his new cover page for
every
reader:
Thank you for your interest in Caroline's works.
http://www.entheta.ca/caroline/
There is no doubt Mr. Duncan is completely unconfused about who owns and who
sponsors
my site, and is doing nothing to generate such a confusion.
But you and all of you are generating a "confusion" where no
confusion
exists, just to be able to fair game us. I am aware that Scientologists will
state
as truth pretty well whatever they're ordered to state, that they can
certainly
confuse themselves on command, and, of course, that your organization is, as
Judge
Breckenridge states, schizophrenic, but I still don't believe there's anyone
you
can produce who will sign an affidavit for you complaining
that after reading my site he or she thought it was owned and sponsored by
your
Scientology corporate clients.
If you can produce a person, Scientologist or wog ®, who, after
reading
my site, thinks it is owned and sponsored by your Scientology corporate
clients,
I would like to have my psychiatrist examine him or her. If you cannot
produce
such a person, who, after reading my site, thinks it is owned and sponsored
by
your Scientology corporate clients, you know you must immediately withdraw
your
threats and propose an amends project.
Mr. Duncan repeats his statement as to my site's ownership and sponsorship
in his response to your letter: "the works of Caroline are in
tact."
He also mentions his knowledge of your clients' illegal motive for trying to
shut
down my site and his opposition to their, and your, fair game campaign:
Knowing your litigious nature, it is unlikely this will satisfy you, as
your
REAL motivation is to silence the information contained in the document, and
not
protect copyrights at all! I REALLY disapprove of your Machiavellian methods.
There is nothing whatsoever in anything I created for the Decoding
Scientology
Propaganda site or what Mr. Duncan has added to the site which would lead any
somewhat sane person to the cognition that your Scientology cult, whose
motives
and methods Mr. Duncan, thankfully, criticizes and opposes, is its owner or
sponsor.
Since Mr. Duncan supports me in my defense to your cult's attacks, he is
acting
in concert with me. Since I support Mr. Duncan in his defense to your cult's
attacks,
I am acting in concert with him. For our mutual defense, and every wog's
®
mutual defense, against Scientology's attacks, of course, we act in concert
with
Gerry Armstrong, and he acts in concert with us. Anyone reading anything
about
your clients knows that no Scientology entity, or Scientologist, or any
lawyer
or agent, would ever act in concert with Mr. Armstrong.
The obvious exception is in your cult's covert ops against him where
Scientologists
or your agents pretend to act in concert with him in order to get close to
him
to be able to perpetrate various crimes against him; but as a rule,
Scientologists
who are not pretending to be wogs ®, and any agent of the Scientology
cult
not a double agent, will never act in concert with Mr. Armstrong. Therefore,
as
a good faith gesture, I will ask Mr. Duncan to add to my Decoding Scientology
Propaganda site a banner or image I'll create stating clearly and boldly that
the site is acting in concert with Gerry Armstrong. I think other site owners
you've threatened, based on your same mythological likelihood of confusion,
might
also want to display the image to make it very clear that none of your cult
clients
and no one connected to the Scientology cult operation owns or sponsors their
site. "This site is acting in concert with Gerry Armstrong."
As another good faith gesture, I will also ask Mr. Duncan to add this
letter
to my site, because it is a good statement of my opposition to the
Scientology
cult as it is now being operated. None of my writings now on the Decoding
Scientology
Propaganda site provides such a clear statement of my opposition, to your
clients
as parts of the cult, and to their antisocial policies and practices, such as
"black PR," "fair game" and using the law to harass, as
you're
doing here. Therefore this letter on the site will make it even more
unbelievably
clear that the Scientology entities I criticize for these abhorrent actions
are
not the site's owners or sponsors.
You say that your Scientology clients' trademarks are distinct, unique and
famous, and that, accordingly, my use of these marks for purposes of
discussion,
scholarship and education dilutes and tarnishes the distinctiveness of the
marks.
As you are well aware, my noncommercial fair use of your Scientology clients'
marks is specifically permitted and encouraged by law, regardless of whether
such
noncommercial fair use diluted and tarnished the marks' distinctiveness. My
fair
use of your clients' marks did not, however, in any way dilute or tarnish
their
distinctiveness. This is simply another baseless allegation by you to give
the
illusion of validity to your "legal" fair game.
The distinctiveness, uniqueness, fame and tarnish of your cult clients'
marks,
are, as you can imagine, worthwhile subjects for discussion, scholarship and
education.
Your extremely bad faith effort and your cult's effort to suppress and
eliminate
discussion, scholarship and education concerning your cult's marks is itself
worthy
of discussion, scholarship and education. In all of this, it is in every way
legally
permissible, to display your marks, no matter how wonderful, sacred or divine
they are, how distinct, unique and famous, or how demonic or infamous.
It is really the fact that in the wog world ® Scientology is more
infamous
than famous that makes your clients' marks so worthy of discussion,
scholarship
and education. It is also your clients' infamy, not my fair use of their
marks,
nor my fair use decoding of their propaganda, nor even my criticism of their
infamy,
which will lose them customers, and income. If people who view the materials
on
my site are led to themselves decode Scientology propaganda, to cognite on
your
cult's infamy, to have nothing to do with Scientology, to leave Scientology,
or
join the opposition to your infamy, that is how it should be. That is proof
that
the site is educational. Education about a fraudulent, dangerous cult such as
Scientology should properly result in people being able to decode the cult's
propaganda,
in their cogniting on the cult's infamy, in some of them having nothing to do
with the cult, in some of them leaving the cult, in some of them opposing the
infamous cult's infamous policies and practices, and, one would also
postulate,
in the cult's loss of income.
The inclusion of your cult's images, marks and symbols in the scholarship
on
my website assists education, even makes education possible at all, since the
subject being taught is decoding Scientology propaganda. As even you will
admit,
I'm certain, your Scientology cult clients makes extensive use of their marks
in their propaganda, and, I assure you, decoding their propaganda must
therefore
make extensive use of these marks.
As you of all people are aware, decoding Scientology propaganda is serious
scholarship. No Scientologist, even yourself, is capable of decoding
Scientology
propaganda, or even permitted to decode your cult's propaganda. In fact, your
job is to is to prevent its being decoded, to hammer out of existence any
attempt
to decode your cult's propaganda, and to close the door on criticism,
scholarship
and education.
My job is to keep decoding Scientology propaganda, to keep studying your
cult's
symbols and symbology, to keep displaying the results of my scholarship, and
to
keep educating people about your infamy, about your propaganda, and about
your
fair game war to destroy wogs ® like me and to destroy our precious wog
®
sacraments of fair use, criticism, scholarship and education. I assure you
that
to keep decoding Scientology propaganda, and to keep boldly employing my fair
use right, I must display, and will keep displaying, your marks, images and
symbols.
If there is any scholarship on my Decoding Scientology Propaganda site that
is
in error factually, please do advise me, and I will be happy to make
appropriate
corrections. Your cult's and your ferocious fair game efforts to close down
my
site and destroy my scholarship based on your phony, manufactured charges of
copyright
infringement, however, must cease immediately.
Being a " copyright attorney" for the Scientology cult, you are
aware
of this statement by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, in Feist Publications, Inc.
v. Rural Telephone Service Co., 499 US 340, 349(1991):
The primary objective of copyright is not to reward the labor of authors,
but
"[t]o promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts." To this
end,
copyright assures authors the right to their original expression, but
encourages
others to build freely upon the ideas and information conveyed by a work.
This
result is neither unfair nor unfortunate. It is the means by which copyright
advances
the progress of science and art.
You and Scientology, of course, try to get copyright law to do the very
opposite
of what Justice O'Connor writes is its purpose. You use copyright law to
discourage
others from building freely upon the ideas and information conveyed in your
"works."
You use copyright law to suppress out of existence any study which decodes
your
propaganda, and to destroy criticism, scholarship and education. By
destroying
criticism, scholarship and education, you and your cult seek to stop the
progress
of science and art. That alone is enough reason for someone such as myself, a
wog ® who seeks to advance, rather than stop, the progress of science and
art, to do the study on Decoding Scientology Propaganda I have done, and to
oppose
your cult's suppressive policies and actions as I do.
Pursuant to Miscavige command intention, you have manufactured the
inanity,
indeed impossibility, that I do not possess the fair use/fair dealing right,
I
do possess, as a critic, as a leader in the field of decoding Scientology
propaganda,
as an educator, as a mother, as your cult's victim, or as its ongoing fair
game
target. You manufacture this inanity in order to generate a "legal"
conflict or controversy, and the resultant "legal" channel, by
which
your cult can flourish and prosper by ruining me utterly. You and your cult
use
your concocted inanity to trample on my copyright rights, and copyright
rights
of everyone; for the greatest copyright right of all is the right of fair
use.
If you acknowledge my indisputable fair use/fair dealing right, which I
clearly
do possess, to display your images, marks and symbols for the purpose of
criticism,
scholarship and education, your "conflict" or "
controversy"
and your "legal" opportunity to fair game me disappear. You have
invented
this "conflict" because I am fair game, and copyright law, just as
any
part of the law, can be used very easily, as your boss's command intention
states,
to harass.
Considering the misanthropic nature of Scientology, its founder and its
present
boss of bosses, and your cult's goals of world conquest and the crushing of
wogs
® and our civilization's great treasures, I, and all wogs ®
everywhere
have an inalienable right to expose by copying, displaying, publishing and
disseminating
anything and everything your cult clients say, display, publish or
disseminate.
It is not necessary, however, to litigate, or even consider, your Scientology
cult's Marcabiavellian nature, nor Hubbard's or Miscavige's nature, nor your
clients'
evil intentions toward wogs ®, even fair game wogs ® like me. If
Hubbard
was not a complete fraud and the author of fair game, if Scientology was not
at
war with wogs ®, and even if I was not your clients' fair game target, my
use of the images, marks, symbols and any other copyrighted materials of your
Scientology corporation clients on my website is still fair use and still
completely
permitted by all relevant copyright law.
The action I request of you is to immediately acknowledge to Mr. Duncan
and
me my right pursuant to Canadian, U.S. and international copyright and
trademark
laws to display the images, marks and symbols of your clients which I have
displayed,
and as I have displayed them, on my site Decoding Scientology Propaganda for
the
purposes of discussion, scholarship and education. It might be good to make a
public acknowledgement to this effect, but if you don't, I will do so when I
get
your ack in response to this letter.
I appreciate your courtesy and attention to this matter. For any reason,
please
do not hesitate to contact me.
Very truly yours,
Caroline Letkeman
Copies to:
Scott Duncan Scott.Duncan@nx2000.net
Karen Spaink kspaink@xenu.org
XS4ALL admin@xs4all.nl
Keith Henson hkhenson@cogeco.ca
Arnie Lerma alerma@bellatlantic.net
Lisa McPherson Trust info@lisatrust.net
Gerry Armstrong gerryarmstrong@telus.net
alt.religion.scientology
Electronic Frontier Foundation
David Miscavige
info@scientology.net
bcc: Media list
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