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of its ―Life Improvement Center‖ in the neighborhood. And some local business owners
complain that Scientologists have followed customers into their shops.
―I don‘t care if it‘s Church of Scientologists [sic] or census takers,‖ said Ybor civic leader
Vince Pardo. ―If you have too many people approaching people for questionnaires or money
or religious conversion it becomes harassment.‖
Scientology says that it wants to be sensitive to neighborhood concerns without limiting its
own rights. (Corey Shouten, St. Petersburg Times, Internet, 6/7/03)
Lawyer Pays only $4,500 of $2 Million Claim
A Pinellas County (FL) jury has ordered attorney Ken Dandar to pay $4,500 to Scientology,
which sued him for more than $2 million saying he turned a ―garden variety‖ wrongful death
suit against them into ―a frontal attack on an entire religion.‖ The amount Scientology
wanted was an estimate of what Dandar‘s clients paid to pursue the wrongful death suit.
Dandar brought the lawsuit on behalf of family and friends of Lisa McPherson, a
Scientologist who died in 1995 after 17 days of care at Scientology offices in Clearwater.
Scientology said that Dandar‘s attempt to add as defendants top Scientology officials led to
bad publicity that devastated Scientology and violated an agreement not to add defendants.
Dandar said the Scientology suit was an attempt to ruin him and suppress the wrongful
death suit. A trial date for the latter case is likely to be announced next month. (Robert
Farley, St. Petersburg Times, 8/20/03 AP, Internet, 8/21/03)
Girl Denied Right to Attend Course
A French judge in Nantes, following an appeal from the child‘s aunt and grandmother, has
banned 14-year-old Marion Chauchreau from going to Denmark to enroll at a Scientology
school in Copenhagen. The girl‘s mother is a longtime Scientologist, her brother teaches at
a Scientology school, and she herself grew up in Scientology.
Social service agencies, in light of the court order, are investigating Marion‘s social,
psychological, and psychiatric situation as a prelude to judging the potential for harm that
entering the Copenhagen school might entail. In 2001, France passed a law envisioning the
banning of groups whose leaders are convicted of crimes like the manipulation of minors.
(Copenhagen Post, Internet, 8/8/03)
Safe Harbor Called Scientology Front
Safe Harbor, a Scientology organization recently founded in Hamburg and aiming to
recruit doctors, nutritional scientists and environmental physicians, is a Scientology front ―to
infiltrate new social groups [according to the author of this report] and to spread the crazy
ideas of Ron Hubbard, the sect‘s founder.‖ Says Rüdiger Hintze, of the Working Group on
Scientology of the state‘s Department for Domestic Affairs: ―We can see here what cunning
methods Scientology now uses to tie people to the organization and to spread Hubbard‘s
ideology.‖
Melanie Hoff, who recently returned from London, where she studied nutritional therapy for
psychiatric problems — Scientology adamantly opposes mainline psychiatry and drug
therapy — tells how she was courted by Safe Harbor and then presented a professional
paper on the subject to a Safe Harbor meeting. But, ―I soon thought the people and what
they were saying were pretty strange, and so I did some research on the Internet.‖ She
realized that she had unwittingly become a pawn of the Scientologists. (Olaf Wunder,
Hamburger Morgenpost, Internet, 8/2/03)

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Seventh Day Adventist
Suit against Pastoral Counselor Dismissed
Jerry Rose‘s suit against former Issaquah Seventh-day Adventist church pastor Terry
Campbell, accusing him of destroying the Rose family, has been dismissed by a judge in
King County, WA. Rose alleged that Campbell‘s spiritual counseling of a group of women,
including Rose‘s wife and daughter, led to an attempt on Rose‘s own life and the murder of
the daughter. Mrs. Campbell pleaded guilty to murder conspiracy and was released this
summer, early, from a five-year prison term.
Rose said Campbell implanted false memories of satanic ritual abuse in his mentally fragile
wife and other women, and turned Rose‘s wife against him. Members of the counseling
group say Campbell knew of the murder plot and even stored for one of the conspirators,
Rose‘s daughter, a box of drugs she did not want police to find after the planned murder.
Campbell admitted he has no formal psychology training, and Seventh-day Adventist
officials defended his practices as constitutionally protected religious belief. They say the
denomination believes all illness is a by-product of sin and caused by Satan, and that the
ministry to deal with the problem is not limited to psychologists and psychiatrists.
―I find it outrageous,‖ said Rose‘s attorney, Susan Johnson, ―that the court has found there
are no consequences for the church or the pastor. The church trained Campbell in
questionable and manipulative counseling methods, put him in a position of power and
allowed him to counsel vulnerable people, and moved him from church to church every time
complaints arose that he was overly involved in counseling.‖
Superior Court Judge Terry Lukens said state law does not allow damages for a spouse
injured by a counselor. Attorney Johnson argued that Campbell also counseled Rose at one
point, and ignored his duty not to harm persons whom he counsels. Mrs. Rose has not
commented substantively on the matter since her release from prison, but told the press: ―I
have fears about people you don‘t understand. If I could stop Terry Campbell, I would. But I
can‘t.‖ (Noel S. Brady, King County Journal, Internet, 10/11/03)
Social Therapy/All Stars Project
Call for Bank to Cease Involvement
The co-chairman of the ―Save the Independence Party Voter Coalition‖ of New York City has
called on the Wachovia Bank to drop an $8.5 million bond issue for the non-profit All Stars
Project, Inc. Mike Niebauer says that the leaders of the theater program for inner-city
youth, Lenora Fulani and Fred Newman, practice ―social therapy,‖ which New Jersey expert
Rick Ross calls cult-like.
Ross says that social therapy — which encourages political activism to cure depression and
other problems — has ―devastated‖ some former members who ―compare it to
brainwashing. They lost their ability to think independently.‖
The Anti-Defamation League lists anti-Semitic remarks made by Fulani and Newman and
expresses concern about companies that deal with the All Stars Project. (Rick Rothacker,
Charlotte Observer, Internet, 5/26/03)
Solar Temple
Claim Murder and Not Suicide
Relatives of Solar Temple supposed suicide victim Alain Vuarnet, who died with fellow
members in the French Alps in 1995, claim that tests on Vuarnet and his mother‘s exhumed
bodies suggest incendiary chemicals were used, which would in turn suggest they might