From hkhenson@cogeco.ca Wed Nov 21 20:53:52 2001 Path: sn-us!sn-xit-01!supernews.com!newsfeed.online.be!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.gtei.net!newspeer.monmouth.com!news.lightlink.com!news2.lightlink.com From: hkhenson@cogeco.ca (Keith Henson) Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: Arrest at Oakville Place Mall Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 01:53:52 GMT Organization: Temple of At'L'An Lines: 541 Message-ID: <3bfc593e.73948179@news2.lightlink.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.232.34.12 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.5/32.451 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.141.40.229 X-Original-Trace: 21 Nov 2001 20:54:09 -0500, 24.141.40.229 Xref: sn-us alt.religion.scientology:1004875 At the Oakville Place Mall by Keith Henson "An outrageous display. . . reckless and excessive use of force." ----Scientology critic Rob Clark The Arrest, 2:30 p.m. May 28, 2001 My arrest (under the direction of Officer Bonenfant) was a textbook case of an arrest made in the most dangerous way possible. A dozen police officers, members of the public, my friend Gregg Hagglund and I were put at great risk of death or injury. Gregg Hagglund's car was followed to a public place (Oakville Place Mall, Oakville, Ontario) rather than being stopped before we got there or on the way back home. We were followed on foot into the mall. The arrest could have been made in the stores: neither of us was wearing anything that would have concealed a weapon. We were followed out of the mall. The arrest could have been made at the double doors. We were allowed to get in Gregg's car, gaining access to (hypothetical) weapons and allowed to start the car before the TRU team moved in. Here is the situation just before the police moved in. You have an excited (they always are in action) TRU team possibly inflamed by a story of a hatemongering explosives expert. The two people they were going to arrest are on edge because they have been followed for days and are well aware of the history that Scientology operatives kidnap people. And these people were permitted to *start the car*. Cars are correctly considered deadly weapons. It is decidedly odd police practice to allow the suspects about to be arrested access to a deadly weapon. Gregg was milliseconds from jamming the car in reverse and ramming his way out based on his initial perception that the people who were jumping out of a van behind the car were Scientology bounty hunters. All he could see of the TRU team members in the mirror was blue jeans and guns. If Gregg had broken the legs of the two officers right behind his car or killed them he would have been justified on the basis of a reasonable effort to prevent his houseguest from being kidnapped by what he perceived as kidnappers. If the officers had in turn shot Gregg as he backed toward them they too would have been justified. You could go up to about any level you want on the potential of this operation to have hurt people, including officers losing legs from being pinned against the unmarked police van behind Gregg's car, spraying the food court of the mall with police semi automatic weapon fire (less than 30 meters away, it was in the line of fire) and the two of us being dead (the ideal outcome for Scientology). Even with no resistance on our part, TRU operations like this are dangerous. A few months later an officer in Calgary was killed when his best friend jumped out of a van, tripped, and discharged a gun in a training mission very similar to this operation. Gregg has nightmares to this day about the ways this incident could have turned out. Immediately following my arrest, there were inconsistencies indicating the Toronto officers had exaggerated the situation. The Halton police were utterly mystified (after being told I was a dangerous explosives expert) that the car was not being searched and, after hinting to Bonenfant several times "When are we going to search the car?" started asking *Gregg* what was in the car. (He told them, picket flyers and a megaphone in a box they could see in the back seat and picket signs in the trunk they never opened.) Another indication that this level of force was unjustified was that no precautions were taken such as having the bomb squad or bomb-sniffing dogs present. I suspect that if the TRU had been told I had been in the country 16 days (which is plenty of time for a dedicated person to steal or even make explosives) they would have insisted on these precautions, or perhaps researched the case themselves and found TRU use to be entirely unjustified. (Gregg, for example, is in police computers as a trusted person.) There may have been an assumption that there would be an "unfortunate" arrest incident and when it did not happen they were left without a backup plan. Or as Bonenfant said to Gregg in a low voice, "No US citizen will ever be granted refugee status," and they figured their odd behavior would never be questioned. All in all, this bears the unmistakable stench of a Scientology operation--working through the Toronto officers putting the Toronto and Halton police, the "suspects" and the public in a totally unjustified high-risk situation. If (as I suspect) my arrest was engineered by Scientology, it failed in its major objective, though they got something since I did spend 11 days in jail--at considerable cost to the government. But that is due to luck: Gregg didn't have the car in gear and he recognized, as he was about to jam it into reverse, that a woman with long blond hair who jumped out of another van was a police officer and not an Scientology hired bounty hunter. http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2001-06-07/news_spread.html. Based on a simple immigration warrant with no unusual wording, this arrest was carried out as if it been planned and executed by the Toronto officers to place everyone--Gregg, the TRU, the public, and me--at maximum risk. Why? It is clear from the reports at the time and the immigration files that Scientology was in close contact with Toronto officers Phil Glavin and (first name?) Bonenfant for at least a week. These two officers were also in contact with Riverside County (California) Deputy DA Robert Schwarz. DDA Schwarz has a close relationship with major Scientology lawyers, particularly former mafia lawyer Elliot Abelson. (In fact, that relationship forms part of my appeal of the case against me in Hemet, California.) It is hard to believe these officers unquestioningly accepted everything Scientology agents told them and failed to remember that the Scientology corporation was criminally convicted for breach of the public trust a few years ago in Canada. And what was the "breach of public trust?" They were caught by accident long after infiltrating and influencing law enforcement, including the Ontario Provincial Police, the RCMP, the Attorney General *and* the Toronto police. A sample of Canadian legal papers from these cases are webbed at http://xenu.ca/court/index.html and http://xenu.ca/court/appeal.html In assessing the risk taken in this arrest, it is important to know that someone had been following Gregg almost every day and to know that Scientology has been associated with a lot of kidnappings. "Scientology kidnapping" in Google turns up 1740 pages. Gregg and I had discussed Scientology bounty hunters and how to fight our way out to foil capture by Scientology thugs. Gregg has a "bodyguard" mentality. He is known for a long history of working security and being a bodyguard for important guests at large science fiction conventions. I had posted on the Internet about bounty hunters and being followed to the news group alt.religion.scientology May 19, 2001. The following from that post is a transcript of an openly recorded conversation while picketing in front of the Toronto Scientology office between Keith Henson and scientologist Brian McPherson: [. . .] Keith: Well, we will have a chance for a Canadian tribunal to decide whether I had a fair trial in Hemet or not, because they get to review it. Brian: Why would they review the case? Keith: Because they have to. I am applying for refugee status because my human rights have been violated. I am an escaped political prisoner of conscience because of what was done to me in Hemet California. Brian: But the case was. . . . .OK Keith: So that's my claim, see. Brian: Does it mater what the case is? Keith: People have come up here escaping murder convictions for example. Brian: Yeah. Keith: And sometimes . . .the Bambi B. case . . . finally embarrassed the US government so bad that they cut a deal to take her back and run the case through the appeals court. I am generating an international incident. Brian: (laughs) Keith: It is unavoidable, unless Scientology hires some bounty hunters to take me back to California. And if they did *that* would create an international incident. And they would look like complete idiots because it was a misdemeanor, not a felony. (Conversation about bail--OR--drifted into the Picard bill.99%--mind manipulation--evolutionary psychology--hacker mentality--jargon file millionaires in Scientology and how many Slatkin took the cleaner religions--Zen Druids--Memes. Mind manipulation and how to determination it. Aum killing people, Lisa McPherson, Jone Wood, Ashlee Shaner, Golden Era, (*), DM in a casino, the deposition of DM, and his public buggering rant.) After about an hour of this, Gregg and I went off for some lunch, but decided to just go home before the traffic got bad. We had a car follow us most of the way back. [The tape is available on request] The report (by Gregg and Keith) started with: Keith Henson and I drove into downtown Toronto so that Keith could attend some to some business at Mamann and Associates. [My immigration lawyers.] Scientology has a special unit in Los Angeles that reads everything posted to this news group on the Internet and reports to the Office of Special Affairs (OSA), the department in charge of intelligence, extortion, blackmail, and terrorizing those who oppose the cult's abuses. So on May 19, 2001 Scientology's OSA unit knew Gregg and I were concerned about bounty hunters and being followed. They knew on May 17 I had retained Mamann and Associates. These facts were likely shared with the Toronto officers (there should be records). OSA had investigated Gregg's medical records (bragged about it to him on a picket) and knew he was taking an anti depressant drug. Scientology (due to their institutional insanity about "psych drugs") would assume that anyone taking drugs would act crazy in a stress situation. The Toronto officer's answers to interrogatories in the currently ongoing investigation may describe how much information of this kind was transferred in contacts the officers had with Scientology OSA agents such as Al Buttnor. One of the Toronto officers told a pointless story to Gregg's neighbor earlier the day I was arrested about my being wanted in the States on "explosives charges." Telling a neighbor that a guest next door is wanted on serious charges when you are on a stakeout is an obvious violation of police practice, but it may indicate the level of stress put on the Toronto officers by OSA and how much they in turn had pumped up the TRU members about how dangerous the person was they were going to arrest. (Keresteci Affidavit). The TRU was also told I had come into the country the morning of May 28, apparently to create a sense of urgency. From Halton's Arrest Report, Toronto officer Glavin the complainant: "Susp fled to Canada earlier this AM to avoid sentencing in Calf, USA for hate crimes & threats against Church of Scientology. Deemed high risk due to explosives history. Comp located in Oakville by TO Fugitive Detectives and surveilled to Mall. Arrested by HRPS and returned to Toronto." This is hard to blame on OSA. I had been in Canada 16 days, and the Toronto officers knew it. One of them had talked to Robert Schwarz the previous week. They could not have talked to him the day of the arrest because it was a US holiday (Memorial Day). The real urgency may have been an appointment I had with my lawyer the next day to file a refugee claim. Immediately after the arrest, Bonenfant made comments in a very low voice to Gregg indicating he knew of the appointment with my immigration lawyer in downtown Toronto the next day. If he did, the Halton police were put at risk for no reason at all, because Bonenfant knew he could have arrested me using Toronto police less than 24 hours later in my lawyer's office. It would have been easy to find out since my immigration lawyer's name had been mentioned several times on the Internet and the receptionist certainly would have given the appointment time to the police. There was one other odd thing that should be mentioned. Glavin and Bonenfant came to the first immigration hearing. There they successfully argued that I should be held another seven days because they stated there was a report about an "incident" that might indicate I was dangerous on a sergeant's desk and the sergeant would not be back from vacation for a few days. I know what the 'incident' was because it was the only time police attended any event involving me. A report was written about this picket on May 21 (attached) and posted to the a.r.s news group. I was one of seven people peacefully picketing the Scientology organization in Toronto. There were no interactions with the Scientologists that day. None of us were even asked for ID that day. It is an interesting question how these officers knew of this report and not know the actual contents, which were clearly innocuous. Given the background and what occurred, it is believable that OSA once again used law-enforcement officials to carry out an operation against their "enemies" that was meant to endanger their lives. In this case, it also endangered not only the Toronto and Halton police but also the public at the Oakville Place Mall. Scientology's "religious practice" of depreciating the value of human life has now extended to a reckless abuse of public officials that could have led to loss of life among bystanders including children. The least complicated analysis of this arrest would assume incompetence of the Toronto officers. With Scientology's OSA involved, there are good reasons to look further. ####################### Appendix/Background When analyzing Scientology operations against critics the question is: Are you paranoid *enough*? Scientology is a confidence operation that uses human psychological vulnerabilities to separate people from their money and to obtain political power. Its crime, dirty tricks & intimidation wing, the Office of Special Affairs, deploys anyone they can use as weapons against "enemies." (Time Magazine in 1991 used the words "classically terroristic." The US Supreme Court ultimately upheld the statement but it cost Time $10 million in legal fees.) A Scientology security agent in court testimony described me as an enemy early in 2001 (Declaration of Frank Oliver--attached). This is what Scientologists are to do to enemies: [Fair use quote] ENEMY SP Order. Fair game. May be deprived of property or injured by any means by any Scientologist without any discipline of the Scientologist. May be tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed. LRH:jp L. RON HUBBARD Copyright (c) 1967 Founder by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED http://www.planetkc.com/sloth/sci/Fair_game_ord.html This was written in 1967, but Scientology documents by Hubbard a few decades old are obeyed by Scientologists to no less an extent than much older documents are obeyed by members of other religions. To get into the proper mental state for analysis and informed speculation about the arrest on May 28, 2001 at the Oakville Place Mall you may need a background beyond what I can provide and attach here. Checking the links will only take a few minutes but it will take a few hours on a computer to follow and read all the Web pointers provided. In 1995 a Scientology agent by the name of Linda Woolard met Scientology critic (an "enemy," in their terms) Tom Klemesrud in a bar and induced him to take her to his apartment on the pretext she was an IRS agent. (She probably *was* an agent, one of the internal IRS agents Scientology was delegated to create under the IRS/Scientology truce agreement of October 1993.) Tom is certain his drink was drugged and the drug was probably the cult's favorite, chloral hydrate. Ms Woolard did not use enough, however, and Tom spoiled the operation by calling the police after he discover her spreading blood all over his bathroom and bedroom. If this was not an act of terrorism, I don't know what it would be called. (The police copy of the 911 recording could not be located--common for Scientology cases--but a backup tape from the fire department was found. The transcript is posted on the Internet.) Tom was arrested by the police who came in response to his call to 911, for being "drunk" (drugged) in his house and spent the night in jail based on false accusations of threats by Ms Woolard. Ms Woolard vanished after the police arrived. The details of this bizarre story are on the Internet: http://www.planetkc.com/sloth/sci/Fair_game_ord.html Ms Woolard even left her address book and had tried to make calls to a private detective, Gene Ingram. Ingram (a former police officer kicked out of the Los Angeles Police Department) is paid over $700,000 a year by Scientology for his work intimidating people and running operations such as the one against Tom Klemesrud. There was no question this was a Scientology operation, but the goal of the operation was not clear for a number of years. About a year ago a document that had been made up in advance of the operation (and on the assumption it would work as planned) surfaced in police files in Finland. The document stated that Tom was in jail on suspicion of murder--something that didn't happen. The (now obvious) goal of the operation was to get Tom held indefinitely in jail on murder charges while the police tried to find a body to go with the pints of blood all over Tom's apartment. Tom was not even the primary target of this operation. The entire complicated operation was done with the object of getting Dennis Erlich, a former high-level Scientologist, and subscriber to Tom's Internet service, support.com, off the net. Dennis had earned the ire of Scientology by openly talking about their "secrets," particularly the Xenu story and Scientology's illegal practice of medicine using "emeters." http://www.xs4all.nl/~kspaink/cos/rnewman/erlich/home.html. Next, consider the January 2000 case against Mark Bunker in Chicago. Two off duty Chicago police working for Scientology arrested Mark for trespassing (on a public sidewalk) while he was taping two former members trying to get a refund. It is thought the police stole the tape from his camera after arresting him, then made false statements. Mark went to trial on the testimony of the police, disputed by witnesses. The witnesses were believed over the police, and a jury acquitted Mark after a very short deliberation. How much this operation cost Scientology is not known. It was certainly expensive for Mark Bunker's employer and the State of Illinois. http://www.lisatrust.net/legal/bunker/opening.html There is a record in the case of how much Scientology was willing to spend on another enemy, Jesse Prince. Jesse worked for the Lisa McPherson Trust, same as Mark Bunker. In an attempt to entrap Jesse Prince on marijuana charges several private detectives were paid between $200,000 and $300,000. (An embarrassed DA dropped the charges after a hung jury.) http://www.lisatrust.net/Media/SPTimes/SPT5-26-01.html and http://www.sptimes.com/News/052601/news_pf/Opinion/Church_behavior.shtml Scientology has spent by admission in court (September 13, 2000) $2 million dollars on trying to destroy me. Scientology is widely believed to have corrupted the DA and the judge in the case reported about at http://www.operatingthetan.com. Scientology has spent an estimated $500,000 on trying to shut up Gregg Hagglund. They also extorted his brother (a senior government official) and sister. To say Scientology agents hate Gregg would be an understatement. He and a few other critics successfully opposed Scientology's attempt to gain charity status in Canada. Obtaining charity status (or tax-exempt status in the States) has recently been shown to be a primary purpose of the apex Scientology corporation, CSI. http://www.nots.org/cst.htm Scientology has no concern about endangering people's lives. Scientology leader David Miscavige quipped, "She died. People die" about Lisa McPherson's cockroach ridden death in their "care." One outsider (Ashlee Shaner) and one member (Stacy Moxon) died in early 2000 as a direct result of a total lack of concern for the welfare of people. http://www.lisamcpherson.org/ http://www.operatingthetan.com/shaner-charges.txt http://www.rickross.com/reference/Scientology/scien243.html These are only sample URLs. Search Google on Lisa McPherson, Ashlee Shaner and Stacy Moxon for more details about these deaths and many others. Scientology corrupts law enforcement and the courts to the extent they can. Besides Mark Bunker, there are numerous examples on the web, see http://www.xenutv.com/. The police in Clearwater, Florida have been paid over $100,000 by the cult for guard duty. This has had the effect that assaults even with intent to kill (Joe Neal attacking Bob Minton) were brushed off as not worth investigating. http://www.bobminton.org/mintonln.htm Scientology members faked a hit and run accident to frame Gabe Cazares in Washington, DC. http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/wakefield/us-13.html There is the famous case of Paulette Cooper, a New York author, whom Scientology framed by mailing themselves bomb threats. They enlisted the FBI in the operation, which was not exposed until the FBI raided Scientology in 1977 and the plans were found among the 30,000 documents seized (which included OPP personal files). http://www.lermanet.com/latimes/la90-1c.html There are several other similar operations known. It should be noted that with the possible and long delayed exception of the case where Scientology was charged with "simulation of a felony" http://www.raids.org/heberm2.htm against Pedro Lerma in Spain, Scientology has gotten away with all these attacks on enemies using law enforcement. The cult's method is illustrated by the Lisa McPherson case. In that case, the police recommended three homicide charges after a three-year investigation made difficult at every turn by Scientology. The DA reduced the charges to two felonies, criminal neglect and practicing medicine without a license, filed against the corporation. Scientology could have paid a fine of under $12,000 and been done with it. Instead they spent several million on legal fees, private investigators and expert witnesses. "On June 12, 2000 the criminal charges were dropped against Scientology because (so the prosecutor claims) the medical examiner could not be counted on to confidently testify, even though the criminal charges were abuse of a disabled person and practicing medicine without a license. You can read much of the Clearwater police department's evidence and Scientology's logs of Lisa's stay, view some of the autopsy photos, and decide for yourself." http://www.lisamcpherson.org/. Scientology harassed Dr. Joan Wood, the medical examiner, into changing her determination of the cause of Lisa McPherson's death. After that she was driven out of office over this affair. She subsequently has gone missing, perhaps because she is under great pressure not to testify in the upcoming civil wrongful death case. http://www.sptimes.com/News/050601/news_pf/Pasco/Case_hinges_on_missin.shtml So an analysis should assume that Scientology will run bizarre, expensive, and dangerous operations to "get" their enemies. They will try to destroy their enemies through law enforcement and the courts if they can. They don't care if people get hurt and they almost always get away with these operations because the victims are not believed or it is just too difficult for even the state to pursue charges against a corporation that spends $20-30 million a year on litigation. "Incredulity of our data and validity. This is our finest asset and gives us more protection than any other single asset. If certain parties thought we were real we would have infinitely more trouble.... Without a public incredulity we never would have gotten as far as we have. And now it's too late to be stopped. The protection was accidental but it serves us very well indeed. Remember that next time the ignorant scoff. L. Ron Hubbard, [quoted in] The Scandal of Scientology by Paulette Cooper http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/wakefield/us-q2.html Affidavit of Peter D. Keresteci 2235 Munns Ave. Oakville, ON L6H 3M9 I am over the age of 18. If called upon to testify as to these matters, I can and will. I drove my daughters to the River Oaks School on Monday, May 28, 2001. Two police officers approached me in the school parking lot after I had dropped off my daughters. They indicated they had followed us from our home. One of them stated he was a Toronto Police officer and presented identification. He showed me a poor quality photocopy of the image of a person and asked me if I had seen this person. He further stated that this person was staying next door with my long time neighbour, Gregg Hagglund. This officer claimed that the person depicted was wanted in the United States on "explosive charges." The quality of the photocopy was so poor I could not identify the person as someone I had seen. Signed under penalty of perjury under the laws of Ontario in Oakville, Ontario. [signed] Peter D. Keresteci Date Nov. 19, 2001 From hkhenson@cogeco.ca Wed Nov 21 21:07:30 2001 Path: sn-us!sn-xit-01!supernews.com!feeder.qis.net!newspeer.monmouth.com!news.lightlink.com!news2.lightlink.com From: hkhenson@cogeco.ca (Keith Henson) Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: Re: Arrest at Oakville Place Mall Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 02:07:30 GMT Organization: Temple of At'L'An Lines: 46 Message-ID: <3bfd5d2a.74952206@news2.lightlink.com> References: <3bfc593e.73948179@news2.lightlink.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.232.34.12 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.5/32.451 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.141.40.229 X-Original-Trace: 21 Nov 2001 21:07:47 -0500, 24.141.40.229 Xref: sn-us alt.religion.scientology:1004881 On Thu, 22 Nov 2001 01:53:52 GMT, hkhenson@cogeco.ca (Keith Henson) wrote: >At the Oakville Place Mall by Keith Henson snip Postscript After this was written I received word that the missing material from the court records in the Hemet case was not missing. Judge Wallerstein sealed the part of the transcript where he made the ruling--without notice and without indications in the transcript itself that there was sealed material. The material sealed is in direct conflict with his minute order of the day that makes no mention of the motion he ruled on. Three lawyers tell me this is to their knowledge an unprecedented act for a judge. It is so insane and so likely to be caught that it exceeds anything a junior law clerk would do much less a retired judge. My advisors (some of whom are more and some less paranoid than I am) could come up with only one idea--before he pulled this stunt, the judge had been promised by OSA that I would not be around to object to the appeal record being tampered with. The speculation the cult had in mind for me to be incapacitated or killed in jail, and the high-risk arrest analyzed in the previous posting takes on a considerably more ominous character. Assume for the purpose of argument this is true. Who is now a potentially grave problem for the cult? On the assumption OSA failed to take me out, and I have now exposed judicial acts that (properly prosecuted) would get him many years in jail, Judge Wallerstein is a potential trouble source for them. I.e., the cult has motivation to turn on the judge before he turns on them. In every case I know about, the cult has choked up when it comes down to the act of killing people. But as others have pointed out this is getting to be desperate times for the cult. This argument, though speculative, was persuasive enough for me to call appropriate law enforcement in that area and warn them that the Judge's life may be in danger. Keith Henson