Scientology's Legal Threats and Free Speech | ||||||
Scientology lawyers routinely contact critics alleging copyright infringement, trademark violations, and dissemination of trade secrets. By threatening legal action - often with no intention of following through - they sometimes silence legitimate criticism. (In other cases, critics ignore the threats or respond in other ways while continuing to speak out.) This list represents a small fraction of Scientology's legal threats and allegations. To get an idea of how many have been reported on the Internet, try searching Google and Google Groups ... and keep in mind that some threats of legal action have not been publicized on the web. if (1 == 2) { /* declare some relevant variables */ $hostname = "127.0.0.1"; $username = "racer"; $password = "kn82dmkw"; $dbName = "racer"; /* MySQL table created to store the data */ $userstable = "scnevents"; $shortdate = date ("m-d"); $worddate = date ("F d"); /* make connection to database */ MYSQL_CONNECT($hostname,$username,$password) OR DIE("Unable to connect to database"); @mysql_select_db("$dbName") or die("Unable to select database"); /* Select matching records */ $query = "SELECT scnevents.*, scncites.descr, scndocs.title, scndocs.url FROM $userstable left join scncites on (scnevents.id = scncites.eventid) left join scndocs on (scncites.docid = scndocs.id) WHERE scnevents.keywords like '%chill%' group by scnevents.descr ORDER BY date DESC"; $result = MYSQL_QUERY($query); /* How many of these users are there? */ $number = MYSQL_NUMROWS($result); /* Print these results to the screen in a nice format */ $i = 0; IF ($number > 0) : PRINT "$number incidents found:"; PRINT "
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