From: xenu@mindspring.com (Rob Clark)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
Subject: APOLOGY TO THE CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 1997 03:28:08 GMT
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on a certain date a few years ago i responded with intense anger
to a posting by one of your paid agents provocateur, and i posted the
line "BLOW UP YOUR LOCAL CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY TODAY!"
with no intention that any such thing happen.

in fact, if there were violence against scientology and a violent
faction who opposed your cult through violence, i would switch sides
long enough to make sure that any such scumbags paid for their crimes.
so far, your only true violence has been the six punches in the face
to roland.  i hope your cult didn't intend such a thing to happen and
that this was merely an out-of-control member.  for that one
transgression i can forgive you,  but i only forgive you for the
experience i had when knowing that your cult would punch roland six
times in the face, so what would it do to me?  

susan meister was pulled off the apollo and her body hidden with
a bullet-hole in the head.  if the story is not discreditable, why did
your cult harass her father for years?  why'd they hide the body, just
like they're doing now in mcpherson?

your cult got away with that one.

i "got away" with what i did as well, in a certain sense.  i got
overwrought, made an asshole comment, then when called on it i tried
to run away from it and lied about it.

this is what your cult does.  i was partially-influenced by your
tactics when i responded to your tactics by acting on them myself.
then i did what you always do whenever you get caught in a lie.
"uhhh, i never said that.  xenu, what xenu?"  then i tried to blame it
on my critics.  

now i'm saying hell with that.  i said it, i was wrong, i retract it,
and i apologize to any scientologists anywhere who were actually
terrified by the thought of a random net idiot like me spewing
whatever silly thoughts came into my head without having the sense to
edit what i wrote before i sent it.

i find violence repugnant, and i am ashamed of the possibility of even
for a moment seeming to encourage violence.

sorry.  i also apologize to anyone i told that lie to, people who
deserved better, deserved the truth.

rob