Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: Congressman Moorhead (see article "Today's bulletin") From: Zenon Panoussis Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 06:57:52 +0100 CC: dm@dma.se, grady@northcoast.com, hkk@netcom.com, hkhenson@netcom.com, Zenon Panoussis -------- Here is the full text of Moorhead's insulting letter. American and Swedish indignants can check contact means at http://www.vote-smart.org/congress/ca/ca-27-a/ . After having delivered your venom at Moorhead's doorstep, play the games of "spot the lie" and "mock-up truth". Whoever gets most points wins one copy of legal NOTs (Carlos J. Moorhead, his members of family, employees and associates are excluded from participation in the competion; competition not valid where void or illegal). =============================================================================== COMMITTEES: CARLOS J. MOORHEAD 27TH DISTRICT, CALIFORNIA JUDICIARY ROOM 2346 CHAIRMAN, SUBCOMMITTEE ON RAYBURN HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING COURTS AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY WASHINGTON, DC 20515-0527 (202)225-4176 SUBCOMMITTEE ON IMMIGRATION AND CLAIMS SUITE 304 420 NORTH BRAND BOULEVARD COMMERCE GLANDALE, CA 91203-2345 (818)247-8445 VICE CHAIRMAN, FULL COMMITTEE SUBCOMMITTEE ON TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND FINANCE SUBCOMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND POWER Congress of the United States House of Representatives Washington, DC 20515-0527 October 28, 1996 The Honorable Birgitta Dahl Speaker of the Riksdag 100 12 Stockholm Stockholm, Sweden Dear Speaker Dahl: I write as one member of a national legislature to another and ask your immediate assistance in defending the interests of an important constituent of mine, the Religious Technology Center (RTC). Certain special, advanced scriptures of the Church of Scientology are being made publicly available by the Chambers Office of the Swedish Parliament in violation both of copyrights held by RTC and of the deeply held beliefs of Church members in America and throughout the world. I ask that you do all in you power to ensure that these copyrighted materials are immediately returned to their rightful owner, RTC. The Swedish Parliament received these copyrighted materials from Mr. Zenon Panoussis. Mr. Panoussis is the defendant in a copyright infringement suit brought by RTC in Swedish court. The Stockholm District Court and the Svea Appeals Court have both ordered that the copyrighted materials be sealed; have ordered seized all manner of RTC's copyrighted material in Mr. Panoussis' possession; and have denied Mr: Panoussis' request for a copy of the material in question. It is obvious from these proceedings that Mr. Panoussis gave to the Swedish Parliament RTC mterial that the Svea Court had ordered seized; that Mr. Panoussis had no legal right to possess RTC materials, much less give them to the Swedish Parliament; and that the Svea Court intended, by its sealing order, to keep this material confidential. These RTC materials have also been the subject of several copyright infringement cases in the United States. The U.S. courts in these cases found RTC to have a copyright in these materials and have allowed RTC to maintain the confidentiality of the materials. In spite of these facts, the Chambers Office of the Swedish Parliament continues to make the RTC materials available to the public. This action by the Swedish Parliament infringes the copyrights held by RTC under U.S. and Swedish law and under the Berne Convention, to which Sweden is a signatory. Furthermore, this action violates the deeply-held belief of members of the Church of Scientology that these materials should be revealed only to individuals who have achieved a certain level of spiritual preparedness. I hope that you understand my grave concerns regarding the actions of the Swedish Parliament. If our positions were reversed, and the U.S. Congress were infringing the copyrights and violating the religious sensibilities of a Swedish citizen, I am confident you would demand that I take corrective action. And I can assure you that if the evidence of copyright infringement was as clear as it is in this case, I would use all my authority to have the U.S Congress stop such infringing actions. I hope that you recognize both the illegality and injustice of the Swedish Parliament's refusal to return the RTC material to its legal owner, and I trust you will take all action necessary to correct this problem. Respectfully yours, [signature] Carlos J. Moorhead Chairman, Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property United States House of Representatives cc: Justice Minister Laila Freivalds Fax: 011468202734 Justice Chancellor Johan Hirschfeldt Fax 0114687230357 =============================================================================== Sorry for the formatting; that's Moorhead's own. Get the importance and weight of this: it constitutes a diplomatic incident. Pay attention to the language. This letter could have been written (and most probably was written) by the CoS' lawyers. Either is Moorhead a scieno, or he is paid, or he is extremely naive. Keith and Grady: In this letter, a US congressman confirms that the NOTs are generally available to the public in Sweden. Do you need anything more than a certified copy of this letter in order to win your cases? The parliament NOTs should really have taught the American scieno lawyers something about the Swedish offentlighetsprincip, the right of citizens to access the government's documents. Evidently they learned nil. Had they learned their lesson, then they would know that a letter like this would sooner or later surface in ars. I bet Congressman Moorhead is not used to that. Well, teach him the lesson. Do it in a serious way. Call a newspaper, a radio station, a TV station. Note the fax numbers at the bottom of the letter. If you feel that you have something to say about the integrity of the concerned authorities and their refusal to submit to undue pressure, use your fax. And don't forget to drop a note to your congressman. Remember: the scienos work day and night writing letters and faxing faxes. Outperform them by sending just one letter or fax each. Z --- oracle@everywhere: The ephemeral source of the eternal truth...