Scientology Critic Arrested After 6 Years 1046
destinyland writes "Friday police arrested 64-year-old Keith Henson. In 2000 after picketing a Scientology complex, he was arrested as a threat because of a joke Usenet post about "Tom Cruise Missiles." He fled to Canada after being found guilty of "interfering" with a religion, and spent the next 6 years living as a fugitive. Besides being a digital encryption and free speech advocate, he's one of the original Burr-Brown/Texas Instruments researchers and a co-founder of the Space Colony movement."
Tom Cruise Missile (Score:5, Funny)
"Other posters joined in the internet discussion, asking whether Tom Cruise missiles are affected by wind. "No way," Keith joked. "Modern weapons are accurate to a matter of a few tens of yards."
So, does that make Tom Cruise a 'straight shooter'?
Re:Tom Cruise Missile (Score:5, Funny)
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Space colony, eh? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Hey Scientology, this one's for you (Score:2, Funny)
Friday police (Score:5, Funny)
I don't know who these Friday police are, but they should be stopped. Friday police don't have the right to stop free speech anymore than normal police do!
What's your excuse? (Score:4, Funny)
I thought people only read Usenet for the pictures.
Re:Space colony, eh? (Score:5, Funny)
1-Set up space colony.
2-Send up scientologists.
3-Send up air.
Re:Scientology isn't a Religion (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Scientology isn't a Religion (Score:5, Funny)
i just wonder how long will it take for microsoft to embrace the new religion, add their own pantheon, patent it and try to squash the rest of us? i can hear the chant now... "developers.. developers.. developers.." as we do a monkey dance around a bonfire of burning penguins.
Re:Scary (Score:3, Funny)
arww, they are nice guys. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I don't get it? (Score:5, Funny)
While not outright illegal, everyone here would give me the eyeball if I went out picketing a Jewish mosque.
If you can find yourself a Jewish mosque to picket, then I say go for it. You'd probably get a lot of support from Jews and mosques around the world (not to mention the evangelical Christians) for picketing such an abomination.
Re:I don't get it? (Score:1, Funny)
> picketing a Jewish mosque. But if I picket Scientology, everyone cheers me on?
Where did you find the Jewish mosque in question? Right next to that Muslim synagogue maybe?
Re:Yeah they're oppressed too (Score:3, Funny)
I don't get it... screw them because they're oppressed?
Re:Religion ? (Score:3, Funny)
In Soviet California.... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Scientology isn't a Religion (Score:1, Funny)
I find your ideas intriguing and wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
Re:Scary (Score:5, Funny)
The terrorist says to the scientologist,"Stay away from the donkey, I've packed him full of explosives."
The scientologist says to the terrorist,"You can't blow up the donkey, I've packed him full of thetans!"
Finally the donkey says,"Actually, I'm fine. You filled each other up, you Asses."
Being religious is like being gay (Score:5, Funny)
Some people have both genes, but I'll Cruise away from further speculation on that subject.
Re:Digital Monks of the Internet Monastery (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Scientology isn't a Religion (Score:3, Funny)
It's only a matter of time... (Score:5, Funny)
So now it's just a matter of time before creationists start having archeologists arrested for digging up dinosaurs and interfering with their religion...
The moral of the story is (Score:5, Funny)
Re: "The land of the free" bullshit (Score:3, Funny)
The US of America has the best legal system money can buy!
And we have a constitutional right to freedom of speach, and our gummermint has a right to break in to our homes sieze our property
put us on a (very special) plane and send us to an undisclosed location where there is no constitution.
And never come home, ever.
Re:Scary (Score:2, Funny)
The terrorist says "Where's the Koran"
The Scientologist says "Where's L Ron."
and the donkey says, "Where's El-Juan [wikipedia.org]"
Philosophical question (Score:3, Funny)
If an AC karma whores in a forest of posts and noone mods him up, does he really karma whore at all?
Re:Tom Cruise Missile (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Tom Cruise Missile (Score:5, Funny)
No, John Travolta's and Tom Cruise's movies just seem like they last for eternity and, as far as I know, denying isn't enough; you aren't forced to watch them unless you actively spread the information that L. Ron wasn't actually God.
Re:Tom Cruise Missile (Score:3, Funny)
I'd like to kill all the christians and scientologists, while i eat soup made from muslims...
Is that illegal to say under CA law?
Re:Ecumenical Councils: the Christian Party Line (Score:5, Funny)
You're being glib.
Re:Scientology isn't a Religion (Score:1, Funny)
This is slashdot. We don't get much sects around here.
Re:Tom Cruise Missile (Score:5, Funny)
Alternate Scientologist in a Bar Joke (Score:5, Funny)
Note: the following joke is subject to final script approval by Mr. Tom Cruise, in accordance with his production company's contract with United Artists.
OK, see, this Scientologist walks into a bar with a frog on his head. And the bartender says, "HEY...what the hell is THAT?!" And the frog says, "Well, I'm not sure exactly, but it started out as a wart on my ass."
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The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.
--David Ogilvy
Obligatory... (Score:3, Funny)
Tomato, Tomato.
Re:Hmmm (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Tom Cruise Missile (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Tom Cruise Missile (Score:4, Funny)
Priest: "No, not if you did not know."
Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?"
--Annie Dillard, 'Pilgrim at Tinker Creek'
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