$CIENTOLOGY
DogDrowning FAQ!

Q: Who drowned 
   Judge Swearinger's dog?  
 

Ch1: In his notorious ''Peanut Butter'' press release, Church spokes-clam Andrew Milne blames it on the critics .
Ch2: The harassment is detailed in this article from American Lawyer magazine .
Ch3: The real truth then emerges in this section from the Fishman affidavit.
Ch4: Milne then does a complete sommersault and pretends the damn dog drowned itself to discredit the Church.
Ch5: Finally this parody from Mr.NotMilne sums it up rather well.

At right, a toy dog wearing water-wings often appears   at English anti-Scientology picket lines.   Protesters suggest that Duke, above, the dog [reported drowned from unstated causes in American Lawyer] of Los Angeles Judge Ronald Swearinger, was drowned at the hands of Scientology. The Church vehemently denies any responsibility for the dog's death.

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Ch1: Milne's original Press Release.

From: milne@crl.com (Andrew Milne)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
Subject: WOLLERSHEIM'S HISTORY OF DECEIT AND MANIPULATION
Date: 22 Aug 1995 09:43:06 -0700
Message-ID: <41d1eq$hcr@crl10.crl.com>

          Larry Wollersheim is a former Scientologist who was
     expelled from the Church in 1980 after abusing his
     membership to lure Scientologists into investing in a
     series of failed business ventures.

          Court records show that Wollersheim has a history of
     deceit and manipulation both before and after being involved
     in Scientology.  He has left many victims behind him, and
     used multiple social security numbers to obscure his trail.


 
          
          
          This history of dishonesty began early. To avoid the
     draft, he pretended to be insane by, among other things,
     putting peanut butter in his underwear and eating it.

          He has a record of setting up corporations that then
     fold -- often leaving empty-pocketed investors in their
     wake.  One was to sell meat door to door -- until the Los
     Angeles District Attorney caught up with it, levying $10,000
     in fines for health violations for selling old meat.  He
     then established a business to sell pictures -- but didn't
     deliver them.  When the bank accounts were dry, he opened
     two other companies, and after taking more money from
     investors, they too folded.

          After being expelled from the Church, Wollersheim
     created "Fit Stix," an Aspen, Colorado-based venture which
     also folded after the investor's money was spent and after
     Wollersheim falsely led them to believe the product was
     endorsed by television personality Richard Simmons.

          Wollersheim then misappropriated the work of a Colorado
     physician to create the short-lived "Aspen Diet" under an
     alias, Robert Lawrence.

Do you get the idea the Clams don't like this man?
I wonder why....

          Wollersheim turned to a different avenue to try to
     make some easy money.  He filed a lawsuit against the
     Church.  This time it was a Los Angeles Court that was taken
     in by his stories.  Though Wollersheim initially succeeded
     in deceiving the judge and jury when the case went to trial
     in 1986, the Appeals Court later called the outcome
     "preposterous."

          Indeed, the Wollersheim case was the pioneer of the
     insanity we have now come to expect of Los Angeles courts,
     in which the Menendez brothers, Rodney King and the OJ
     Simpson circus are now par for the course.  Where else in
     the country could Wollersheim and his lawyer walk into court
     with a white powdery substance still stuck to their noses
     and smelling of marijuana, and nobody would notice or care?

          The Wollersheim verdict was a serious miscarriage of
     justice that played upon the type of ignorance that
     engenders religious intolerance.  The verdict has been
     completely discredited -- it was grounded on the testimony
     of key so-called experts whose tortured theories have since
     been soundly rejected by their colleagues and courts alike.

You mean you lost?

LOOK >>> Dog Drowning !!!

          But there was an even darker side to this chapter of
     the Wollersheim story.  Later investigation revealed
     evidence that the judge and jury were the subject of a
     covert dirty tricks campaign to influence them against the
     Church.  Wollersheim and his attorney hired a team of thug
     "security guards" to create an intimidating presence in the
     Court.  The trial judge was the target of particularly
     scandalous harassment which, as the judge himself later
     revealed to a national legal reporter, 
     included drowning his dog and slashing his car tires.  
              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
     The judge himself later admitted that he was concerned 
     about the harrassment during the trial, 
     but never disclosed what was going on or his
     prejudice to the Church's lawyers.  He also confided that
     the jury verdict was wrong but refused to take any action
     because he wanted to get even.

          Part of Wollersheim's courtroom act was to claim that
     he was scared of the Church.  Yet, he has since devoted his
     life to taunting the Church and Scientologists.  Having
     conned one court, Wollersheim apparently believes himself
     above the law.

          The copyright violation charges that Wollersheim now
     faces bring the story to the present.

As Milne is too modest, let me spell it out for you:
the Crutch owes Larry W about $5,000,000 including interest.
They got out of it by laundering all the money out of that $cn corporation before judgement was finally declared...
''Not one thin dime for Wollersheim'' was the motto at the time.

Now, they have the Chutzpah to sue Larry for his role as a director of FACT-NET
in publicising their Sekrit Skriptyoors.

        This time he teamed up with a convicted felon and
     con-man named Steven Fishman.  Fishman was arrested by the
     FBI and spent several years in jail after trying to frame
     the Church of Scientology for a stock fraud he committed.
     His other collaborator, Robert Penny, was exposed in 1994 by
     his bookkeeper for insurance fraud for improperly receiving
     full disability compensation -- yet he is able to work full
     time running both the bulletin board service and a small
     computer business on the side.

          This money-making scam is even more audacious.

          Their computer bulletin board was established to
     provide a source of "expert" testimony for a lawyer in a
     civil case.  To gain further credibility, they filed for tax
     exempt status, without revealing the true purpose of their
     organization.  The lawyer paid tens of thousands of dollars
     from insurance company funds for "litigation services" and
     in exchange had a ready source of materials to use for his
     case from this "tax exempt" charitable organization.  Most
     of the material was provided by the lawyer himself.

          And while collecting insurance company funds, they also
     solicited donations for their "charity" and offered copies
     of the materials out of their computer for a fee.
  
          But the ultimate payoff was planned to come by
     attempting to extort the Church into paying to stop the
     dissemination of false information and copyright
     infringements.  Every extortion demand was rejected, and the
     Church filed complaints with the District Attorney and US
     Attorneys offices for these terroristic tactics.

          Now the plot has been exposed and justice is being done
     -- swiftly and according to the law.  

And, of course, Milne is an expert on justice
and obeying ''Wog'' Law.....when it suits him.

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Ch2: From ''the American Lawyer'' Magazine.

___ Begin excerpt from _American Lawyer_ July/Aug 1992 p 77 col 2 ___

California superior court judge Ronald Swearinger, who presided over the _Wollersheim_ trial, describes the case itself as anything but normal: Church trial lawyer [Earle] Cooley and his co-counsel, the late John Peterson, filed a number of unsuccessful ''writs and motions'' throughout the trial in an attempt to halt it, according to Judge Swearinger. Three days into the trial, the judge says, they moved for his disqualification, based on ''some secret conversation I'd had with someone I'd never heard of.'' They also filed a Section 1983 federal civil rights action against both him and the judge who sat on the case prior to him, says Swearinger, on the theory that by allowing the case to go to trial the judges were denying the church its civil rights. (Cooley confirms that the Section 1983 action and the disqualification motion were filed.)

But Swearinger's recollections of the oddities of the _Wollersheim_ case go beyond court filings: ''I was followed [at various times] throughout the trial ... and during the motions for a new trial.'' the judge claims. ''All kinds of things were done to intimidate me, and there were a number of unusual occurrences during that trial. My car tires were slashed. My collie drowned in my pool. But there was nothing overtly threatening, and I didn't pay attention to the funny stuff.''

Church official Kurt Weiland strenuously denies Swearinger's assertions: ''The allegations that the church had anything to do with it are completely outrageous.''

Civil liberties lawyer Eric Lieberman, a partner at New York's 12-lawyer Rabinowitz, Boudin, Standard, Krinsky & Lieberman who worked on the appeal of _Wollersheim_ and has represented the church for 14 years, claims Swearinger's charges are yet another example of the judicial bias with which the church must contend. ''That is highly, highly improper!'' he shouts. ''Even if [the judge's assertions are] true, it was the height of impropriety for him to continue sitting [on the case].''

____ End excerpt from _American Lawyer_ July/Aug 1992 p 77 col 4 ____
fair use extract tajken from posting, without express permission
Note the additional agenda. It is rather like the Chutzpah of the defendant who, having murdered his parents, brought in mitigation that he was now an orphan. First they commit acts of harassment against a judge. Now, if he makes any complaint --- even if he brings criminal charges and they are proved true --- he can be removed from the case for bias because he is in personla conflict with one of the parties.

There was no criminal complaint because there were, at the time, no witnesses coming forward to prove anything definite. I'm told the judge lived for 5 or 6 years after the trial in reasonable health, before dying of a sudden hear attack aged 66.

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Ch3: From the ''Fishman Affidavit'',
What Really Happened!

: 26      20. Mr. Leibowitz is from White Plains, Westchester,
: 27   New York, and was working as an intern with the Office of
: 28
: fishman/affidavit/Page.00008
: 1
: 2    Special Affairs for the Church of Scientology. He told me
: 3    that his mother's first name was "Doris" and that she had a
: 4    complex because she was very short. I also recall Lenny
: 5    Leibowitz's birth date of October 26, 1949, since he is
: 6    exactly one month older than I am. During the course of
: 7    handling a "present time problem" within the context of the
: 8    material we were studying relating to The Ability to Handle
: 9    Responsibility, Mr. Leibowitz related to me that he was
: 10   having difficulty handling the fact that he had drowned a
: 11   dog. Mr. Leibowitz informed me that the dog was a collie
: 12   by the name of "Duke", and that he belonged to a Judge
: 13   Swearinger who lived in the hills of Los Angeles. When he
: 14   disclosed this, I ran Mr. Leibowitz on "rudiments" in order
: 15   to fully handle this present time problem and bring it to
: 16   its end phenomena, in order that we could go on with the
: 17   course and not get hung up on the checksheet.
: 18
: 19      21. In running the rudiments, Lenny Leibowitz
: 20   indicated to me that he was driven to the Judge's house in
: 21   a white late model Jeep Cherokee by another intern with the
: 22   Office of Special Affairs of Scientology. The intern who
: 23   drove him to the Judge's house was named Clarice Guidice.
: 24   Mr. Leibowitz told me that Clarice Guidice was on an
: 25   internship from the Milan Org in Italy, and she spoke with
: 26   a thick Italian accent. He described her as a girl in her
: 27   mid-twenties, who had a "chunky pot belly." He further
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: fishman/affidavit/Page.00009
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: 2      stated that she did not own the white jeep, but rather it
: 3      was a car owned by a senior staff member at the Office of
: 4      Special Affairs in Los Angeles. Mr. Leibowitz told me that
: 5      Clarice Guidice had something he called an "international
: 6      driver's license." I remember that vividly because I had
: 7      never heard of an "international driver's license" before.
: 8
: 9         22. Mr. Leibowitz told me that when he arrived at the
: 10     judge's house, he walked around the back of the house while
: 11     Clarice Guidice remained in the jeep as she was driving.
: 12     Mr. Leibowitz then threw the dog into the pool and "sat on
: 13     the dog" until the dog drowned. Mr. Leibowitz also
: 14     complained that his clothes were all wet and he foolishly
: 15     had not brought a change of clothes with him. Mr.
: 16     Leibowitz informed me that he was ordered to drown the dog
: 17     by Kendrick "Rick" Moxon of the Office of Special Affairs
: 18     of the Church of Scientology International. Mr. Leibowitz
: 19     also stated to me that Mr. Moxon informed Mr. Leibowitz
: 20     that "if he didn't do it, someone else would."

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4. Milne does a sommersault.

 ----- '' speaking out of 
           the back of my neck...''
 






In article <I/D_not_known>, Andrew Milne wrote:
]
] Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
] Subject: Re: The Rumor Train is Running on Time
] From: milne@crl.com (Andrew Milne)
] Date: 15 Nov 1995 22:42:45 -0800
]
] Cory Brennan (koreenb) wrote:
] :
] : quote:
] : %
] : % [discussion had been about cruel experiments on animals]
] : %  
] : % Maybe Cory will tell us how she feels about
] : % Judge Swearinger's collie "Duke" getting drowned in a swimming 
] : % pool  by a scientologist.
] : %
] :
] : Yes, I will tell you. I feel that it is a bunch of crap. I feel  
] : that there is actually a lot greater chance, and every bit as much 
] : evidence that someone like yourself, or Larry Wollershiem, for 
] : instance, drowned Judge Swearinger's dog.  Larry certainly had 
] : a lot to gain by it, if he could successfully blame 
] : the Scientologists. Or it could have even been 
] : somebody that felt they had gotten a bad rap from Swearinger in the 
] : past that did it.  Judges sometimes get those kinds of nut cases 
] : going after  them.
] :
]
] The source of this rumor about the dog is Steve Fishman, the notorious 
] psychotic and compulsive liar. Fishman just invented a whole scenario
] out of whole cloth. It didn't get him very far as he was convicted for
] fraud and obstruction of justice in connection with his attempts to
] frame the Church. God only knows what planet Fishman thinks he lives on,
] but he is the source of this dog nonsense. 
] To concoct his story, Fishman took advantage of the fact that the judge
] in this case was heavily biased against the Church. That is another
] story altogether. 
]
] The judge's vet had told him that 
] his dog was old, and had fallen into the pool after dying of a heart attack. 
]~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
]
]








  
5. NotMilne says it better! 



From: not_milne@crl.com.not (Not Andrew Milne)


              There has been much misinformation spread about on ARS by
       Church detractors regarding the death of Judge Swearinger's dog
       Duke.  This information has been false and is used simply to hurt
       the reputation of the Church.

              Duke was a habitual felon who held a grudge against the
       Church and it's many members.  He used whatever means possible
       to hurt those who cared for him and others around him.

              In 1978 Duke was incarcerated in the City of Los Angeles
       Dog Pound after he was caught rummaging through the garbage cans
       of a Vietnamese restaurant in Northern Los Angeles.  The Animal
       Handlers who captured Duke wrote in their reports that Duke, a
       stray, had lowered himself to eating waste from garbage cans
       to survive.

              Several weeks later, the Swearinger family adopted the
       dirty and smelly Duke and took him into their home. At the time
       of adoption they were not informed of Duke's ''shady past''.  Duke
       was well-behaved for the Swearinger family, but his criminal side
       would come out in their absense.

              Duke's first priority after his adoption by the Swearinger's
       was to find and secure a mechanism where he could leave and return
       to the Swearinger's property without their knowledge. With the
       thoughts of the crimes he would commit, he quickly dug a hole
       under a section of the Swearinger's fence.

              In the months and years which followed, Duke would leave
       the Swearinger property and commit crimes and acts of destruction
       in the surrounding neighborhoods.

              During one of Dukes ''crime sprees'' in 1983, he chanced upon
       a Church of Scientology Mission in the area.  After seeing the
       pristine state of the lawn, he felt a deep hatred in his heart
       and began to defecate on the well-kept lawn.  Luckily, the
       Mission's director was watching him from his office window and
       charged after Duke in the hope of saving the Mission from
       further destruction.

              Duke vowed that he would get his revenge on the Mission
       and the Church of Scientology.  He and his other criminal cohorts
       were often seen keeping watch on the Mission and were chased
       off many times by alert staff members.

              In 1985, Judge Swearinger, Duke's owner, was presiding
       over a lawsuit against a group of criminals who were attempting
       to defraud the Church. A pair of Scientologists who were working
       for Kendrick Moxon, an attorney defending the Church in the
       lawsuit, were delivering important papers to Judge Swearinger
       at home late one evening when Duke decided to get his revenge.

              The two innocent Scientologists stopped to find their
       bearings after they accidentally walked into the Judges back
       yard. The criminal dog Duke seized the moment and jumped into
       the Judge's swimming pool. Duke's intention was to take his own
       life in an attempt to frame the innocent Scientologists with
       his death. One of the Scientologists, who was a trained lifeguard,
       jumped into the pool and tried save the criminally insane Duke.

              As you can plainly see, Duke was a victim of his own
       criminal behavior and hatred of religious freedom.











A: 1---Lennie Liebowitz  
     2---With his fat ass  
     3---In the garden pool !


 

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