Keith Henson, an engineer, writer, programmer, and critic of Scientology was arrested on Friday: http://freekeithhenson.blogspot.com/' He had been convicted in 2001 on some bizarre charges of threatening Scientology that grew out of a Usenet post and his picketing: http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,43420,00.html At which time he fled to Canada and sought asylum, but subsequently returned to the states: http://www.politechbot.com/p-02072.html http://www.politechbot.com/p-02122.html After interviewing his defense counsel and a prosecutor today, I wrote an article that you can find here: http://news.com.com/2100-1030_3-6156516.html R.U. Sirius' writeup is also thorough: http://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2007/02/04/scientology-fugitive-arrested/ http://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2007/02/05/a-reprint-of-an-interview-with-keith-henson-by-ru-sirius-2/ Scientology's position paper on copyright they sent to Politech a few years ago: http://www.politechbot.com/p-03917.html http://www.politechbot.com/p-03929.html And some background on Scientology: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Fishman/time-behar.html http://www.spaink.net/fishman/home.html For background, I'll include part of the Usenet thread about the "Tom Cruise" missile below. -Declan --- Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology From: F...@SkepticTank.ORG (Fredric L. Rice) Date: 2000/07/10 Subject: Re: "Gold Base" French-German ICBM / Tom Cruise Missle Coordinates Keith Henson <hkhen...@netcom9.netcom.com> wrote: >Patrick Volk <pjv...@home.com> wrote: >snip >> The range of a Pluton MRBM = [Deleted for purpose of national >> security] >> CEP on the platform = [Deleted for purpose of national security], >> although I imagine probably around 750 yards. > No way. Modern weapons are accurate to a matter of a few tens > of yards. The terminal guidence ones are good to single digits. You're using the dumbed-down GPS for that, though, aren't you? The military GPS resolution is going to give you an impact point within _feet_ of the desired destination point, isn't it? And even if not, with Keith Henson up on the hill providing on-target IR illumination, GPS won't even be needed. }:-} --- Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology From: pjv...@home.com (Patrick Volk) Date: 2000/07/11 Subject: Re: "Gold Base" French-German ICBM / Tom Cruise Missle Coordinates On Sun, 09 Jul 2000 22:09:02 GMT, nos...@holysmoke.org (Shy David ... >Cult Compound Guard House > 33N50.021 >116W59.274 ... .. meanwhile, back at HQ *gets out slide rule* The range of a Pluton MRBM = [Deleted for purpose of national security] CEP on the platform = [Deleted for purpose of national security], although I imagine probably around 750 yards. Hey, wait... is that a French flag on that new weather station outside of gold base? Hmm... Says here the French government has just purchased 3 square miles of territory from the Mexican government for an escargot farm in Baja California. And they've asked for some cleared airspace between there and Gold Base... to test the Concorde.. Hmm... I'll have to check what C3I has.. --- Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology From: Keith Henson <hkhen...@netcom9.netcom.com> Date: 2000/07/11 Subject: Re: "Gold Base" French-German ICBM / Tom Cruise Missle Coordinates Reply to author | Forward | Print | Individual message | Show original | Report this message | Find messages by this author Patrick Volk <pjv...@home.com> wrote: snip > The range of a Pluton MRBM = [Deleted for purpose of national > security] > CEP on the platform = [Deleted for purpose of national security], > although I imagine probably around 750 yards. No way. Modern weapons are accurate to a matter of a few tens of yards. The terminal guidence ones are good to single digits. Keith Henson --- Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology From: pjv...@home.com (Patrick Volk) Date: 2000/07/11 Subject: Re: "Gold Base" French-German ICBM / Tom Cruise Missle Coordinates >You're using the dumbed-down GPS for that, though, aren't you? The >military GPS resolution is going to give you an impact point within >_feet_ of the desired destination point, isn't it? And even if not, >with Keith Henson up on the hill providing on-target IR illumination, >GPS won't even be needed. }:-} With a MRBM, it's about the equivilant of standing on top of the Empire State Building, and hawking a lugie into a shot glass on the street below. I was reckoning that the French haven't improved their platform stability to that point. Not to mention, if the CoS were to do a high-altitude EMP burst.... Plus, I like Keith too much to have him on a hill within 2 miles of a site where 300 kilotons of hurt is gonna rain down... Keith, if you're gonna be there... Get the SPF 8000 sunblock... and some sunglasses. :) [btw: Deleted for reasons of national security = I don't know, and didn't feel like checking the Organization of American Scientists site for the details] --- _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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