Path: uni-berlin.de!fu-berlin.de!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller.gnilink.net!gnilink.net!trnddc06.POSTED!53edc663!not-for-mail From: Lermanet.com Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: Henson is OUT of jail!! Organization: Lermanet.com Exposing the CON called Scientology Message-ID: X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 206 Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 03:41:31 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 71.246.233.97 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: trnddc06 1170733291 71.246.233.97 (Mon, 05 Feb 2007 22:41:31 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 22:41:31 EST Xref: uni-berlin.de alt.religion.scientology:2128929 Here's my account to someone from the BBC today--sorry it took so long, but it took from 7 this morning to 7:30 this evening to get him out on bail. (My Day Mostly at the Detention Center) I've been going nuts today since 6:15 a.m. trying to find out exactly the same things. There was a hearing at 8 a.m. for which we were so fortunate as to have an attorney attending. The judge set a bond for Keith at $7,500. I was due in a meeting, got out of the meeting, went immediately into another one, ran out to my car after I heard from the attorney that the bond had been set, went back in to get phone numbers to find out where and how to pay bond, and found out I'd locked my keys in my car. So it was 11 a.m before I could get to a bank and draw the money out of my retirement fund. So I did that, but they couldn't give me cash. I showed up at the courthouse as directed, with a cashier's check, but they directed me to the "jail window." They can't take anything but cash. (By now my feet are already sore.) Went to a nearby bank. They couldn't cash the cashier's check I had received from a local bank not an hour before without my having an account at the bank. I went to a nearby store to ask where a branch of my other bank (without enough money) was. Walked to that bank. They had to call the issuing bank but were able to cash the cashier's check. So now I'm walking around downtown Prescott with $7,500 cash headed for the "Jail Window." I'm filling out the paperwork when suddenly I'm approached by two clerks who say they can't let him go because he's about to be taken back into court to see the judge. They tell me to wait. I go out to the lobby when it suddenly occurs to me that the lawyer who represented him that morning had driven back to his office 2 hours away and most likely knew nothing of these circumstances. I went back into the "Jail Window"(less room) to ask whether my husband was not entitled to representation at this hearing. They said they'd send a supervisor out to see me. In the meantime, I'm frantically calling his lawyer. Turns out they had the same problem--couldn't reach his lawyer. (I'm glad they were trying.) So I called Lawyer #2, waiting in the wings, whom I'd meant to hire but he wasn't available over the weekend. Lawyer #1 and I had agreed that he'd just as soon not commute 2 hours to Prescott when needed, so I'd just hire this other local lawyer. Lawyers #1 and 2 are soon both calling the court intermittenty with calling me. Here's what went down. Keith was arrested in a bizarre manner Friday afternoon around 3:30 pm after being confronted and then chased by a plainclothes police detective (unknown to him) in an unmarked car. He fled to a nearby Wal-Mart so there would be witnesses to what he thought surely would otherwise be a shooting (of himself). He then was surrounded by 3 regular City of Prescott police cars with uniformed police who stood around while the plainclothes detective called "California" to see whether "they wanted him," as he told me when I showed up after Keith's initial frantic cell call to me. The detective body blocked me from getting more than a few inches beyond my car toward Keith and my other car, that he had been driving. He told me to "sit quietly" in the car and wait--or else. Soon they had him in handcuffs and off to jail. It was after 6 or 7 that night before he had been booked, and after 7 before he was able to get his blood pressure meds (from me, through the jail nurse, because no one was around to verify his meds). Beginning Friday afternoon, as soon as I got home from watching his arrest, I began calling and emailing people to get the word out and get press. I didn't hear from Keith himself until Saturday night, when he finally reached me. By that time the lawyer a friend had found for him had called him and was able to confirm that he had my home number. He was stressed but OK and getting his meds. He had been placed in solitary as an "FOJ" (fugitive of justice--of!?!), with curtailed visiting privileges. I spoke with him again yesterday, and he had hardly slept because it was so cold in the prison, and inmates were only allowed one blanket. (It was 20 degrees F here last night.) I went in yesterday and put money in his fund so he could buy contact lens supplies, paper, pens, etc., but the "commissary" won't be open till Wednesday (orders for delivery Thursday). I emailed back and forth with the attorney and agreed to print out and bring fee and representation agreement copies with me to meet him at 7 a.m. this morning. I got up at 6:15, raced around, thought well, I'll be back here before I need to go to work at 8, and raed out without makeup, lunch, breakfast, etc. When I got to the jail, the lawyer unexpectedly took me with him to see Keith. By now I'm hardened to seeing him in an orange suit, after his Canadian stint in jail when the $ciclos reported him to the police as "armed and dangerous." We were, of course, separated by the usual glass, but we had a private room for consultation with his attorney, who had convinced staff that I needed to be a part of the fee agreement, financial arrangements, etc. Even in an orange suit and disarranged hair, Keith looks good to me. I stayed until I absolutely had no time to spare, left for work, got in and did a minimum, left again, and now we're back around to the meeting, car, banks, etc. OK, well, what happened after the hearing today is that the Yavapai County Attorney (the district attorney in other jurisdictions) got a frantic call from the Riverside County district attorney that Keith is a flight risk and they had to get him back into court and have his bail raised. The County Attorney contacted the judge, who temporarily raised his bail to $500,000. Lawyer #1, bless his soul, phoned in time to get in a 3-way conference with the judge and Yavapai County attorney and tell them what the Riverside County district attorney was carefully concealing from Yavapai County: the fact that Keith's original crime was not a felony--for which extradition is routine--but a misdemeanor--for which extradition is rare, almost unheard of. In fact, both the judge and County Attorney were convinced that Arizona does not extradite for misdemeanors. That turns out not to be true, but my lawyer didn't argue with that viewpoint; he let them find it out for themselves. (Needless to say, I'm sticking with Lawyer #1.) So the County Attorney had to get back with Riverside County to confirm that Keith's "crime" was not a felony, which left the County Attorney and judge more bewildered than ever. What's the beef? So the judge went off to deliberate, and I've just heard that bail has been lowered to $5,000 for his appearance at a scheduled March 5 hearing in the same court. So I'm off again in a few minutes as soon as I can close up shop here at 5. Maybe Keith will be able to tell you his side of all this this evening (I hope) or tomorrow. In the meantime I've asked help in engineering a telephone, email, fax, and letter campaign to the governors of California and Arizona asking them to: (California) reconsider having signed the extradition warrant; and (Arizona) not sign the extradition warrant. (Both states must sign.) Do you wonder why Keith doesn't want to serve time in the Riverside County jail, with that kind of double-dealing? It's not nice to conceal the status of a citizen for nefarious purposes ($cientology's), but the district attorney did that just this afternoon. Now maybe it was a sin of omission and not commission, to just let the Arizona officials assume that Keith was a felon, because that was the natural assumption. (Who would go to this much trouble for a mere misdemeanant?) I think today's proceedings raise an awful lot of questions about what is going on in Riverside County, California, and what went on there in 2000 and 2001 around Keith's original arrest, unarrest, arraignment (and non-arraignment), hearings, trial, sentencing, denial of appeal, etc. This is one of those Watergate things--the original trespasses were bad enough, but the coverup is worse. Unfortunately they're even more motivated now to cover up what has gone down this weekend, and that doesn't bode well for Keith. I expect we'll be moving to another house, hoping to avoid the surveillance we've obviously been under. You see Keith's email address in the cc. I don't know whether he will be able to get back to you tonight, but you and he should be able to get something together in the next few days. Thanks, and best wishes. -------------------------------- Dear scientology Well that did't work ollie Arnaldo Lerma Lermanet.com Exposing the CON WE COME BACK FOR OUR FRIENDS and FAMILY to get them out while they are still alive! I'd prefer to die speaking my mind than live fearing to speake If the Borg were to breed with the Ferengi you'd get Scientology! The internet is the Liberty Tree http://theunfunnytruth.ytmnd.com http://www.lermanet.com/scientific.htm http://www.lermanet.com/scientologyscandals/charlesmanson.htm http://ocmb.lermanet.us/discussion/ "it's incredible how much money the hypnotized disciples of a clever and ruthless operator will plead and beg of him to accept from them" http://www.lermanet.com/exit/hubbard-the-hypnotist4.htm "Scientologists believe that most human problems can be traced to lingering spirits of an extraterrestrial people massacred by their ruler, Xenu, over 75 million years ago. These spirits attach themselves by "clusters" to individuals in the contemporary world, causing spiritual harm and negatively influencing the lives of their hosts" [Judge Leonie Brinkema 4 Oct 96 Memorandum Opinion] 29 November 1995 Memorandum Opinion Judge Leonie Brinkema "the Court is now convinced that the primary motivation.. in suing Lerma, ...is to stifle criticism of Scientology in general and to harass its critics. " What do we get from getting people out of scientology? We create an individual who has become a Houdini of all mind traps.. folks who won't be fooled again. People who can DE-program, People who can spring mental traps.. We create, by freeing someone of scientology, a being who has the ability to break the strongest slave chains of all. Those forged of lies. (c) Arnaldo Lerma Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities Voltaire (1694 - 1778)