How The Church of Scientology Has Used, AND Still Uses The American Legal System To Destroy Critics - Page 2
In 1986, Armstrong signed a gag agreement with the Church of Scientology, yet he over time, he found the agreement so restrictive of his basic human rights, he could NOT remain silent. (Listen to Glosslip's incredible interview with Gerry Armstrong for more on this epic case).
Because Armstrong had broken the agreement, the cult has sued him many times in the state of California and tried to put him in jail. He fled to his hometown of Chilliwack, Canada but even there, Gerry Armstrong gets no rest.
The "lawfare" waged against Gerry Armstrong by the Church of Scientology epitomizes this new form of harassment and torment of an individual by a much larger more dangerous adversary. The Church of Scientology breathes down Armstrong neck at all times, and thusly, Gerry has NOT been able to find a job, and every job he has had in the past he was forced to leave. That is lawfare. Destroying the enemy by any means possible so that he or she cannot have a life. Although the Church of Scientology has another name for lawfare: fair game.
“To get PC incarcerated in a mental institution or jail, or at least to hit her so hard that she drops her attacks. â€
In 1968, a young author from New York wrote an expose about Scientology, which later was expanded into her 1971 release The Scandal of Scientology. Paulette Cooper did not know that this would bring about a long campaign to destroy her entirely. The Church of Scientology even went so far as to frame her for bomb threats the Church of Scientology sent to itself with stationary stolen from Cooper’s apartment. In this day and age of CSI, she may have been let off the hook in no time, but in the 1970's, the Scientologists did a remarkable job of framing her for a crime she did not commit.
Cooper, whose entire world was on the brink of disaster, was facing 15 years in prison because of the Church's efforts to destroy her. But, as luck would have it, the arrogance of the Church caught up with them and in 1977, the FBI raided Scientology offices around the country and discovered a vast volume of paperwork linking them to something ominously called:Operation Freakout. Operation Freakout, was a Church concocted and executed plan that expanded on their success with the previous forged bomb threat and included details on how CoS operatives would ultimately destroy Cooper through endless lawsuits, and perhaps get her to kill herself (ostensibly so they wouldn't have to). Thankfully, after that discovery, Paulette Cooper was finally exonerated of all charges.
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