Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology From: dennis.l.erlich@support.com Subject: DNA CODE STOLEN! Date: Fri, 24 Feb 95 10:35:46 -0800 * ACK! I just noticed! * +---------------------------------+ I was combing my hairs this morning and noticed the absense of the usual mat of hair in the bristles of my hairbrush. Once a year I clean it out. (What year is this?) Then something struck me ... During the raid there had been scienos (and one scieno in particular) in my bathroom. The only person who entered my house who was not identified. The photographer working for the PI, working for Small, working for the scienos. He refused to identify himself and I made sure he waited outside til the forced photographing of every room in my house "for insurance purposes". I could not refuse this, (off-duty) Sgt. Eccles explained. So he (the OSA photog) stayed on my front porch with the other half-dozen slimos, brought to invade my privacy. In the middle of the most hectic part the search, he suddely had to go to the bathroom. The police officer asked if he could, and I, fool that I am, permitted it. Now I know why he "had to go" so bad. He stole hair and and collected other fluids from articles of grooming in my bathroom. Those items could be planted to any crimescene in the world, and I would be found guilty of it based on the irrefutable DNA match. I truly believe, in retrospect, that that was one of the purposes of the raid. Despite claiming he was not a scieno, this photographer had the 1000 yd. stare and smug little sh*t-eating grin of an OSA operative who was getting a police escort through an SP's underwear drawer. I even commented that he was a scieno. Additionally he photoed (sp) my music studio. Presumeably to duplicate the configuration and make of the components therein, in order to discover my trade secret, Dennisound [tm] Brand, Recording Process which I used to produce the songs on my demo tape, which is also now missing. So the security on my patent-pending-process (and that's a lot of pees) has been violated. This is serious. And I mean that in the real way. +---------------------------------------+ Rev. Dennis L Erlich * * the inFormer * * that person (tm) Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology From: strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight) Subject: Re: DNA CODE STOLEN! Date: Fri, 24 Feb 1995 20:42:44 GMT The best way to protect yourself is to put this in your next declaration to the court at once. Then you are on record, with irrefutable dating, about the hair, though the bit about other fluids is somewhat more speculative. If they really took that stuff and intend to plant it at a crime scene, this will thwart them absolutely. I would also go to a notary public at once with a copy of your post, and get him to notarize, sign, and date it. Then keep it in a VERY safe place. Perhaps send copies of the notarized document to a few friends you trust. This will avoid any claim that you made the above up after the fact of some planting of evidence. This may sound very paranoid, but given the previous posts about the attempts to implicate Klemserud, and assuming those are truthful on his part, you've got to assume the worst. Of course it's possible he cleaned your brush and then used it, but why take chances. David -- "I don't understand why they call it public broadcasting. As far as I am concerned, there's nothing public about it; it's an elitist enterprise. ush Limbaugh' is public broadcasting." Newt Gingrich Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology From: ttha@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Tom Thatcher) Subject: Re: DNA CODE STOLEN! (NO problem!) Date: Mon, 27 Feb 95 00:29:43 GMT Dennis, I hope you are not staying up nights worrying about this. I haven't seen any biology-type answers to this post and I think I can reassure you to a great extent (I hope). Hair does not contain DNA. Perhaps while brushing your hair you pulled loose some strands with the hair follicle intact; these cells do contain DNA. However, the amount is too minute to peform any reliable test on. The only method of DNA profiling currently accepted in the courts (Including California) is a method called RFLP Analysis. RFLP Analysis requires a much larger quantity of DNA than could be obtained from a hairbrush. There is a much more sensitive DNA test using a technique called PCR. However, because PCR is so sensitive, it is very sensitive to contamination. (I recall hearing of a lab where several weeks PCR-obtained results had to be discarded when it was shown the reactions had been contaminated by particles of the technician's dandruff.) For this reason and others, PCR based DNA profiling is not accepted in the courts. In fact, the inventor of PCR, Dr. Kary Mullis, is prepared to testify for OJ's defense as to the unreliability of PCR testing (assuming the prosecution tries to use it.) From a pracitcal point of view, DNA deteriorates very rapidly at room temperature as well, so even if the scienos had a tank of liquide nitrogen in the car, your poor little hair follicles were probably long dead. Hair DOES maintain a biochemical record of the chemistry of the hair-grower for the time the hair was built. Thus, hair analysis may be able to show the nutrional state of the person, and what medications, legal or illegal, a person may have taken while the hair was growing. (Hair analysis of Napolean shows he was poisoned with arsenic over a long period. Similar analysis of Romans shows they all had moderate lead poisoning, from their lead plumbing). However, it is hard to see what use they could make of this. Hair can simply not be matched with the precision of even blood typing. If they tried to claim based on your hair that you were a dope user, for example, they'd get laughed out of court since they would have no legal 'chain- of-evidence' proving the hair was yours, and no legal way to have obtained it. So, to make a long story short, if the scienos *did* take samples of your hair (or snot, or spit, or anything else) there is no way it could be used to place you you somewhere you hadn't been. (Might make a good voodoo doll, though) Feel free to use this letter in any way. Good luck, -- Tom Thatcher | You can give a PC to a Homo habilis, University of Rochester Cancer Center | and he'll use it, but he'll use it ttha@uhura.cc.rochester.edu | to crack nuts.