At 01:08 AM 5/20/96 -0700, Timothy C. May wrote:
But any country that is "anti-Scientology" is likely to be repressive in various ways we would find inimical to our goals. [...]
(The issue of how believable the claims of CoS are is no more relevant than similarly outlandish claims that taking communion is eating the flesh of JC.)
The Australian law is (or was) based on the idea that if you charged someone $2500 for eating the flesh of christ, it then becomes legitimate for the government to check out whether or not the customer was getting actual flesh of Christ. This seems to me a lot less repressive than the American FDA. --------------------------------------------------------------------- | We have the right to defend ourselves | http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ and our property, because of the kind | of animals that we are. True law | James A. Donald derives from this right, not from the | arbitrary power of the state. | jamesd@echeque.com