District Court Southern District of New York Opinion:Ģ. Starkey, then executor of the estate of L. It is a quotation from the deposition of Norman F. Miller makes reference to a profanity-laced Scientology outburst about the book during the legal proceedings. But as we have noted previously, to Scientology the purpose of the suit is to not to win, but instead to harass. If the book were inherently dishonest there would have been claims based on defamation theories. Miscavige incidentally, revolve around strained (read invented) intellectual property rights theories. While I don’t attest to the accuracy of all his facts, for the most part the book covers a lot of irrefutable history pretty accurately.Īs Miller noted in his interview, the nature of the legal attacks upon the book, similar to the defenses in Rathbun v. What I found remarkable about the thorough read I did was how balanced and even-handed Miller was about L. Even in the past couple years I have referred to Miller as a propagandist that was before actually having read the book. In the eighties I had only read summaries and ‘dead agent’ packs compiled by Office of Special Affairs. It was lingering cult delusion that made me think I had. When I read the book, I recognized that in fact I had never read it all those years back. After all, I helped direct and coordinate the abusive litigation tactics that drove his U.S.

I actually thought I had read it back in the eighties when it was published. An interview with Miller was posted on Tony Ortega’s blog this morning. Russell Miller’s book is finally going to be published in the U.S.

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