[ExI] here's what i wrote to the palo alto daily news

[Lee Corbin]

'Way to go, Spike!  Succinct, clear, and totally accurate (of course).

If they ever take anything seriously the public has to say, they'll
take notice of this!

Lee

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "spike" <spike66 at comcast.net>
To: "'ExI chat list'" <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 5:42 PM
Subject: [ExI] here's what i wrote to the palo alto daily news


> Editors of PA Daily News, PAPD, et.al,
> 
> Yesterday's headline was most disturbing.  "Police: Former Palo Alto man
> threatened to bomb church's headquarters."
> 
> Keith Henson did nothing of the kind.  The Church of Scientology alleges
> that there was such a threat, but an investigation of the circumstances
> shows otherwise.  There was an ongoing discussion on
> alt.religion.scientology in which Henson supplied the GPS coordinates of the
> Scientology headquarters.  In another posting, Henson mentioned the term
> Cruise missile, in a humorous reference to perhaps the most famous
> scientologist Tom Cruise.  From those two pieces of information, church
> officials jumped to the stunningly illogical conclusion that Mr. Henson
> owned cruise missile, and from there accused Henson of having threatened to
> bomb the headquarters.  
> 
> The notion that a reference to Tom Cruise indicates personal ownership of a
> cruise missile is so far beyond merely absurd, it's description begs for
> still more extreme adjectives.  Yet the court-dismissed accusation was in
> the headline of Sunday's Palo Alto Daily.  In the interest of accuracy and
> justice, do rectify the Daily's apparently serving as a megaphone for the
> Church of Scientology against one of its own citizens.
> 
> spike Jones
> 
> 
> 
> 
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