6PM Sunday February 4th update
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There will be a hearing tomorrow morning, Monday, Feb. 5. Mr Henson's wife requested that no one show up - and to let the lawyer handle this.

Other notes:

Before Keith was taken into custody a plain clothed policeman came up to the back gate. It appears to have been the same officer that took him into custody.

Keith fled down to the Walmart so that there would be witnesses, and because he was afraid he would be shot. He thought the person may have been a bounty hunter.

Keith's blood pressure is high, despite he has gotten his medication, probably due ot the stress. He is very cold, as there is only one blanket alloted to him. He is in solitary confinement, considered a fugitive of justice.

Arel's phone numbers:

(928) 445-4412
(323) (cell) 712-5492





ACTION TO TAKE NOW


AREL ASKS THAT YOU CONTACT THESE NOW to express your support for Mr Henson, explain his innocence and most of all urge opposition to extradition to california.

1) Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
State Capitol Building
Sacramento, CA 95814
Phone: 916-445-2841
Fax: 916-445-4633

To send an Electronic Mail please visit:
http://www.govmail.ca.gov
LINK

Nota Bene: The Send Mail FORM on the California Governor website is
NOT working when this writer tried it, how convenient, I wonder if the scientologist run entiry Govtech runs that site.


2) e-mail and contact/fax The Governor of Arizona LINK

This writers food for thought:

Thought two terrorist charges show up on the Keith's record, he was not convicted. He was charged with a monor offence, 'interfering with a religion' for exercising his freedom of speech and right to assemble, picketing - This writer is convinced that scientology is no more a religion than the National Socialists were a religion. A member of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement described Scientology to this writer as "The largest organized crime syndicate operating in the state of florida at this time"

A description of Scientology mailed by this writer to the Chief Judge of the 2nd district of Florida resulted in a "MEMORANDUM OF CRIMINAL ACTIVITY" referral to the US Attorney's office in 1997 LINK

Quotes from the What Judges say pages would be useful also. LINK

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Keith Henson Defense Fund

I told Tory Christman, that I would be willing
use my paypal account for alerma@verizon.net
to forward funds to defray legal costs, so I asked Arel Henson if
she wanted this and she said YES DO IT, because criminal attornies
demand full retainers upfront.

Please Note 'KEITH HENSON DEFENSE FUND"
when making your paypal donation. You may go directly
to http://www.paypal.comand make your gift to the paypal account for
this writer - Arnaldo Lerma alerma@verizon.net

-OR- use the secure transaction form on the
SEARCH PAGE at Lermanet.com Exposing the CON - HERE


What ELSE you can do

continue to contact local media
Please continue your efforts to generate a groundswell of support for
Keith, by distributing press releases and emails and faxes to Arizona
media. Start with the small local radio and newspapers in Yavapai
County (Prescott, Cottonwood, Sedona areas) and then go to Phoenix
where the statewide TV/newspaper media are based.


CONTACT LINK to Arizona Media

There will be an update after tomorrows hearing.

Thanks. I wrote my two cents at the above recommended site.

Anyone in the media looking for a BIG story on Scientology should get right on the Keith Henson story. Here is a major story element:

Scientology wants to "obliterate" psychiatry. To vividly illustrate its desire to imprison psychiatrists and destroy psychiatry, Scientology leader David Miscavige showed a picture of a cartoon hand grenade, followed by a cartoon detonation of the hand grenade, when he spoke with respect to physciatry at Scientology's 2007 New Years Eve Event. This is Scientology's trademark hypocrisy: Keith Henson made a joke, albeit one in poor judgment, about a "Tom Cruise Missile" and was charged with making terrorist threats. However, David Miscavige, Scientology's leader and best man for Tom Cruise, can employ a cartoon hand grenade detonation to show his attitude towards psychiatrists as people, and that is acceptable public conduct for Scientology's most senior Ecclesiastical official. Miscavige's use of a cartoon hand grenade and a cartoon detonation of the hand grenade to show Scientology's hostility towards psychiatry would make for a potent juxtapostion of elements in any reporting on the Keith Henson case.

Governor Schwarzenegger, either pardon Keith Henson or consider filing charges against David Miscavige and Scientology for making a terrorist threat against all psychiatrists living in the State of California where the threat was made. Justice demands fairness.

*****

Keith Henson is a textbook example of Scientology's doctrine of FAIR GAME. Fair Game, a doctrine written by Hubbard, is expressly designed to destroy Scientology's enemies by any means possible -- even framing them for crimes if necessary. Scientology framed author Paulette Cooper in the 1970's after she wrote the first big book that was critical of Scientology. The Scientology Fair Game operation was called "OPERATION FREAKOUT." Scientology was able to frame Paulette Cooper and get her charged with making bomb threats. When the FBI raided Scientology's LA and DC headquarters in 1978 following OPERATION SNOW WHITE, it found the written plans to frame Cooper. The charges against her were dropped, but only after considerable agony to her and her family.

Scientology spokespersons verbally claim that Scientology no longer practices Fair Game. However, David Miscavige, who is Scientology's Supreme Ecclesiastical Officer and Tom Cruise's best friend, has never issued a written PL (Policy Letter) that formally retracts Fair Game. In point of fact, L. Ron Hubbard issued a PL that forbids Scientology to use the words "Fair Game" in writing because it is bad PR. However, the Hubbard PL did not cancel or otherwise forbid Scientology from continuing to practice Fair Game against its enemies.

Here is the written body of the 1967 Hubbard PL enacting Fair Game as a Scientology doctrine:

ref: http://www.fairgamed.org/fairgame.htm


The Skeptic Tank® says of Fair Game:





ref: http://www.fairgamed.org/fairgame.htm

See also L. Ron Hubbard's PL for attacking Scientology's enemies via the media: http://www.xenu.net/archive/go/agiadmin/agiadm1.htm

*****

The way in which Scientology pursued charges against Keith Henson needs to be scrutinized by the media. These are some of the story angles:

* It is the story of a local prosecutor deciding to act in favor a local religious cult and against free speech advocate. Why?

* The charges against Mr. Henson were trumped up by Scientology attornies, one of whom -- Eliot Abelson -- was a former assistant district attorney for Los Angeles who later became a criminal defense attorney. ref: http://www.operatingthetan.com/abelson/

* Mr. Henson was no threat to Scientology's heavily armed Gold Base. The defensive preparations for Gold Base were formidable and prepared by then-Scientologist Andre Tabayoyon, a former United States Marine who had extensive military training in weapons, surveillance, hand to hand combat, and killing the enemy at close quarters. Keith Henson would have had to get past Mr. Tabayoyon's perimeter of razor wire fences, ground sensors, security lighting, Scientology armed guards on motorcycles -- and even a Scientology sniper at the "Eagle" lookout overlooking Gold Base -- before he could have stepped one foot on Gold Base.
ref: http://www.whyaretheydead.net/krasel/aff_at.html

* It is the story of Scientology allegedly attempting to manipulate persons inside of the penal facility where Mr. Henson would be imprisoned. Mr. Henson has alleged that Scientology wanted the inmates to think that he was a child molestor so that he would be the victim of inmate brutality. Did Scientology act via its Criminon or Narconon programs to spread disinformation about Mr. Henson inside a penal facility?

*****
People think that Scientology is funny. Once you sweep Xenu and Body Thetans aside, what you find is that Scientology is dangerous and has very active plans for global domination. Scientology cannot dominate the world, but that does not change the fact of its aggressive and hostile intent to do so.


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Note: This is a repost from my report on Scientology's 2007 New Year's Eve event. I attended the event and witnessed the following take place.
ref: http://ocmb.xenu.net/ocmb/viewtopic.php?t=21806&postorder=asc&highlight=years+eve&start=30

*****
David Miscavige did one of the absolutely most shocking things I have ever seen in Scientology during his 2007 New Year's Eve slide series. He was speaking of psychiatry when a picture of what certainly looked like a cartoon hand grenade appeared on the two big screens. The cartoon hand grenade looked something like this: :



Next, there was a cartoon explosion that looked something like this:



Then, chillingly, this single word appeared on the big screens:



The crowd stood to its feet and roared its approval with massive cheering and applause. DM said words to the effect that Scientology had to oblierate psychiatry, and that means obliterate as in completely destroy. DM's use of a cartoon hand grenade detonating to obliterate psychiarty is certainly a violence-inciting tactic. One could count the time in microseconds before lawsuits were served and screams of persection arose from CoS if the APA used such violent images and said it wanted to destroy Scientology. Yet, here was DM offering an extremely violent and terroristic image to his Church. Dave: Did you think this would go unreported by the critics? Correct me if I am wrong, but I saw a cartoon hand grenade explode. I know the word "OBLITERATION" appeared. This is shocking and massively irresponsible public behavior for the COB RTC to engage in at such a high profile event.

DM then said that although psychiatrists required eight years of medical training that CCHR had gotten 21 of their licenses revoked in the past two months. DM did not name names or describe any circumstances, but he did have Scientology take full credit for the loss of these licenses.

Tom Cruise's movie career and reputation were destroyed in large measure due to his ignorant and hostile attacks on psychiatry and the use of medicines to treat depression. Tom Cruise looked like a dangerous cultic buffoon when he went ballistic on Matt Lauer's show.

David Miscavige is a high school drop out who operates a cult based upon a secret $360,000 story about the souls of dead space aliens clustering to people -- and yet he wants to destroy psychiatry and replace it with Scientology. This is why Scientology is collapsing: It offers a bizarre and secret story about why people have problems and then proposes an equally bizarre and expensive cure that uses an E-Meter. Scientology then attacks people who criticize its cosmology and methods. This is why people look at the Scientology scene and choose to avoid it altogether. And DM's use of a cartoon hand grenade does not help the Scientology scene.

*****

I am informing the American Psychiatric Association of Mr. Miscavige's actions. The APA needs to take note of this very violent image of a hand grenade being used against psychiatry by Scientology. The US Gov't needs to be informed of Mr. Miscavige's wholly inappropriate and violent use of a cartoon hand grenade. Post-911, such violent representations are highly inappropriate, particularly when offered by a public figure who supposedly stands for, "A world without war, crime, or insanity."

It is factually insane, warlike, and criminal to use an image of exploding hand grenade to illustrate the way in which your group intends to destroy its opposition.

David Miscavige continues to be militant, militaristic, and violent in outlook.

/

from arel: Re Jury Pool - Three people calling,
including Keith for a long time, did find at least two (if not more)
of the jury pool who were on the jury. Since the actual jury list
disappeared mysteriously out of his defense lawyer's office, we were
left with the 50-strong jury *pool* list. One detective paid to call
stopped calling out of fear. Mainly Keith went on to make calls
himself. He did say that most people he talked to told him they had
not received a jury notice for the period in which he was tried.

More from Arel:

Until I talked with him again (from jail) just now, I did not know the
circumstances of Keith's arrest.

At around 3 pm on Friday I had a call from his cell phone to mine
telling me that he had police on his tail. I thought he was being
pulled over by a regular police car. I did not know what had gone
before.

What had gone before was this: Keith was returning from a visit to an
optometrist who had prescribed new lenses, in order to try them on.
He was in the dirt alley behind the house where I'm staying and about
to back into the driveway when he was confronted by a man in a tee
shirt and jeans who jumped out a car that had come from the opposite
direction on the same road. This man bears a strong resemblance to
Elliot Richardson, who has stalked us for years on behalf of
$cientology. (I saw him later.) As Keith drove off in a panic, away
from the man, he realized it wasn't Richardson, but thought it was a
bounty hunter who would shoot him .

So he drove out of the alley, to the main road (Willow Creek), and
over about a block to a huge Wal-Mart parking lot, where he felt he
would not be shot without witnesses, and that this might deter the man
from shooting him.

He was surprised when three police cars then drove up, and Mark
McClain, by his card a City of Prescott police officer, turned out to
be law enforcement and not a bounty hunter. McClain told him that
police had been given the registration number of the van (my car) he
was driving.

Apparently my house was under surveillance.

When Keith talked to me on the phone, he first told me to come, then
told me that he had been told I would be arrested if I did come to the
place of his arrest. I went anyway. I wonder if it was Detective
McClain who told him I would be arrested if I showed up. When I did
show up, McClain bodily prevented me from approaching Keith or my
other car and threatened me with consequences if I didn't sit quietly
in the car I had come in. He said they were awaiting word that
California did "want him." While I was there, the call apparently
came through, because they formally handcuffed Keith and took him
away.

This is all so odd, because we are now 65 and 64 and look it. What
did they have to fear from this old lady and this old man that I
couldn't be allowed to go over and hug him?

I have McClain's card, although Keith tells me he was very reluctant
to give out his name and only did so when one of the other officers
let it slip out. I have already given out his information to some on
this list, but in case anyone else wants it it is:

Mark McClain, detective
Prescott Police Department
222 South Marina Street
Prescott, AZ 86303
phone 928-777-1924
fax 928-778-3739
TDD 928-445-8004
email mark.mcclain@cityofprescott.net

My giving out Officer McClain's information is not with the intent of
causing him harassment or harm, but of giving information that the
press might need to contact him in case they are interested in Keith's
arrest. No one should harass Detective McClain. I feel that I am not
violating his privacy, because I neither know nor would give out his
personal information. He is a public employee, and this is public
knowledge.

Arel

From Arel:

When I just talked to him, Keith requested phone calls made to both governors.

To the Governor of California: why did you sign a "governor's
warrant" for Keith's extradition? This is not generally done except
in felony cases. What is the charge of obstruction of justice, and
how was it urged?

I would add, what on earth would make you spend money needed for
public health and safety issues on dragging back to California a
64-year-old engineer who has never done anyone any harm and who has
been living peacefully both in Canada, where he sought formal asylum
from death threats connected with an unduly harsh sentence, and in the
United States since he returned from Canada?

The Governor of Arizona has to sign his extradition warrant as well.
Please try to dissuade her from doing so. It is probably better for
Keith if he does his time here. In the meantime we will be working to
try to straighten out the mess in California.

Thank you for your support. Please pass this on.

Arel

I agree that Keith got screwed in one of the worst counties in California to find yourself charged with a crime, but this overreaction to the charge of PC422 being called "terrorist threats" and allegations of $cientology tampering with NCIC criminal history information doesn't help your credibility with the media.

First of all, the image posted doesn't come from an NCIC rap sheet; it's from the records search page of the Riverside County Superior Court website. Anybody can access it at:

http://www.courts.co.riverside.ca.us/pubacc.htm

If you access the case, either by Keith's name or case number, you can get information including the convictions, appellate issues, etc.

PC 422 was commonly known as "Terrorist Threats" at the time of Keith's arrest, but that's the title given by the companies that publish the Penal Code. There is no reference whatsoever to terrorism in the text of California Penal Code 422.

In charging the offense, the DA decided to drop it to a misdemeanor, probably based on Keith's lack of criminal record. (PC422 is an offense that can be a felony or a misdemeanor -- what's commonly known as a "wobbler." See PC 17.)

Since 9/11, the publishers now title the section "Criminal Threats," as it is shown on the arrest record posted. It is still not uncommon to see 422 charged as "Terrorist Threats."

The minutes clearly show that the jury deadlocked on Counts 1 & 2, Penal Code 422 and the lesser-included offense of 664/422, an attempt to commit the same offense. Those two counts were dismissed on the DA's motion because the jury convicted Keith on Count 3.

I still don't see why Keith skipped town in the first place. Because he was convicted of a misdemeanor, he was entitled under California law to remain free on bail while his appeal was pending. He was in no immediate danger of being remanded, and the court records show his appeal was dismissed due to lack of action.

THANKYOU J. SWIFT !!

Excellent spot on observations.

Anyone with ideas of law firms willing to do PRO BONO help for Keith, now's the time to offer suggestions.

OSA (Lynn Farney, Kurt Weiland, Neil O'Reiley) and RTC insiders (Warren McShane, Shelly Miscavige, David Miscavige, Laureece Stuckenbrock, Lyman Spurlock) are the ones who KNOW to what extent Scientology was involved in tracking Keith down and getting police to pick Keith up.

Scientology has successfully inflamed a lot of people, then pounced, and then pumped up the "evidence" that Scientology has incited. People's reactions have been incited and recorded and then inflated and propagandized, and that's how Scientology creates it's "enemies."

Scientology/Hubbard hype consistently. Hubbard hypes what he says Dianetics and Scientology will do.

Hubbard hypes the negative aspects of people ("The Anti-Social Personality", "The Charateristics of a Suppressive Person").

Hubbard chose to label people "enemies" of Scientology/mankind, and OSA and Scientology volunteers are obligated to buy the Hubbard doctrines to remain faithful "on source" valient members, volunteering to take on the "enemies" and "SPs" per the Hubbard/OSA playbook policy options/tech.

The Religious Freedom Watch is the summation of Hubbard's tech for depopularizing Scientology's/mankind's "enemies."

The world's enemies are NOT people like Keith Henson!

Hubbard has successfully pulled the wool over his followers eyes conveniently for his own defense, while he was alive, and now the official movement is stuck with Hubbard's overreaction defensive paranoic policies of counter-attacking against methodically invented "enemies."

How official Scientology should evolve, is how the independent and squirrel movements have already evolved.

There is absolutely NO reason to intell gathering, selecting, targeting, planning counter attacks, and then counter attacking with inciting and button pushing and smearing, etc, provoking and proving that one's selected targeted invented "enemies" are Scientology's (and mankind's) "enemies."

There is absolutely NO reason to obliterate psychiatry, as Hubbard wished and ordered.

Hubbard's overreactoins and paranoia are official Scientology's bane.

The independent movement of Scientologists, free from the micro-manging control of official Scientology have dropped the worst of Hubbard's counter-attacking policies.

Officiall Scientology is currently still stuck executing Hubbard's extreme worst policies.

If Keith goes to California and to jail, then he should do what so many activists do when the eventually are force to do jail time: WRITE A BOOK!!!

I will definitely help for the rest of my life get the ex Int staffers who know the details of how Keith was set up, provide Keith with the true behind the scenes crap the church of Scientology pulled against Keith.

History will vindicate Keith Henson even if he has to go to jail in California.

History has already condemned official Scientology for official Scientology's continued use of Hubbard's extreme church policies.

Faithful official Scientologists will sit around like bumps on logs buying the smearing propagandizing disgraceful characterizations of Keith Henson, because that's the official Scienotlogy setup that faithful are obligated to believe.

I will work to at least urge ex members to somehow share their insider knowledge to help expose and cause an end to this concentration of the official movement on Hubbard's worst extreme policies that do NO ONE any good.

This list of L. Ron Hubbard excerpted writings expose official Scientology's "win" against Keith Henson:

http://www.xenu.net/archive/go/agiadmin/agiadm1.htm

I can only guess what the communication from Warren McShane to David Miscavige was like, and maybe Shelly Miscavige was privy to David Miscavige's reaction on hearing of Keith's capture by the police.

Well, someday hopefully, Laureece Stuckenbrock, and maybe Warren McShane will write about what happened, and maybe one or two of the PIs who did the tracking down of Keith, will all tell their behind the scenes details of this official Scientology "win".

I am so glad smart people like you POST, J. Swift !!!

Thankyou!!!!

If Keith was arrested Friday, is it extremely unlikely that there is a governor's warrant from California. Keith was most likely arrested on the warrant issued by Riverside County Superior Court when he failed to appear for sentencing in 2001.

(Of course, I'm sure Co$ brought it to the Arizona cops' attention.)

I am far more familiar with the process of extraditing someone from California than to California, but a Governor's warrant is usually issued after an identity hearing, where the court has to make a determination whether the person before it is the same person wanted in another state. If a governor's warrant isn't issued and/or the extraditing state doesn't pick the person up within specific time frames, then the person is eventually released.

And yes, California does not usually extradite on misdemeanors.

I correct myself. The minutes of 04/26/2001 show there was a mistrial declared due to the hung jury on Counts 1 & 2, but no dismissal.

Theoretically, the DA could still re-try Keith on those two counts; however, there would be no reason do to so because he couldn't face any additional punishment if convicted because they are alternative ways of charging the same conduct in Count 3. (Penal Code 654.)

spacecootie

Thanks for pointing out to me that the files are not NCIC,
my guess wasn't right -
now to post some corrections
it still amazes me how the keyword
terrorist ican be used to describe a man as gentle as Keith Henson.
When there is the real issue of Artur Solomonyan

jswift

Your report re "OBLITERATION" needs to become a web page.

Regards
Arnie

Excellent, J.Swift!

This is the best point made yet, re Keith and Scientology.

Thank you!

Tory/Magoo~~

PS: I posted what you wrote on ARS, and added:

Having been in Scientology for 30 years, and worked for the Office of Special Affairs for 20 years, I can tell you that
a) I didn't know that Scientology still used Fair Game, until I left and they began using it on me~!

b) I didn't know their plans to take over the media, all political avenues, etc. until I left and read Hubbard's Target Defense in full. However, I had worked on numerous projects that confirm this, although as any totalitarian system, the right hand never knows what the left hand is doing. Scientology is a lot like the movie The Truman Show, where literally one cannot see the walls.
They're not allowed to read, or speak with people such as myself, or even you if you have knowledge about abusive things Scientology does.

Please pass this to any and all media to use, and to your politicians, too.

--
Tory Christman
aka: Magoo!
In Scientology for 30 years, out happily for 6 years!
X-Sea Org, X-Staff, X-OT 7, X-Class 4 auditor, X-OSA Volunteer after 20 years (Mostly in PR)
X-Top Secret OSA Int Internet Mafia, Until I realized what they were really doing and soon after left C of S forever.
For thinking and speaking my mind, Scientology declared me
a "Suppressive Person" (SP 6 ^Cumulative Cluster
& Expelled me from The Church of $cientology
Free at LAST!
www.xenu.net (What Scientology Doesn't want you to know)
www.xenutv.com (Excellent videos)
www.torymagoo.org (My writings about Scientology from ARS)
www.lermanet.com/cos/toryonosa.htm (Top Secret Int Mafia)
or Type in Scientology in Google
(Read, Look, Listen, Make up your ~own~Mind)

magoo44@charter.net
Burbank, CA
(818) 841-3632

"They, who give up essential liberty
to purchase a little temporary safety,
deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-- Benjamin Franklin

Thank you for the information and insights, spacecootie.

Chuck B., I couldn’t agree more! The single smartest thing that Miscavige and official Scientology could do for CoS’s public image would be to immediately cease ALL harassment of Scn critics. Withdraw all complaints against Keith Henson, stop harassing Graham Berry, call off the PIs, don’t sue anyone, take down the wacky websites that label critics as "bigots" or "criminals." Let people wander around outside the orgs with picket signs – bring them cups of tea! The public would perceive the church as confident, magnanimous and "above it all" - and the critics as possibly slightly loony. But when CoS goes after critics, in the public’s eyes it validates all that the critics are saying about CoS; it makes the church look weak and desperate.

This is so simple! You’d think they’d figure it out. And maybe they would, if they weren’t trapped in LRH’s us-versus-them, "always attack" mindset.