Tom Theo Klemesrud
Encyclopedia
Tom Theo Klemesrud is an American
publisher and writer
.
to Glee (1909-1986) and Theo S. Klemesrud http://www.legis.iowa.gov/Legislators/legislatorAllYears.aspx?PID=1853 (1902-1995). His siblings include, Judy Klemesrud and Candace K. Klemesrud (1947-1989), both whom are deceased. He attended the Thompson Community High School and graduated from the University of Iowa
in 1973 with a degree in film production. He is a member of the University of Iowa Presidents Club.http://www.uifoundation.org/pc/ In 1974 he attended the USC School of Cinematic Arts
graduate program for one year.
, Klemesrud was a disc jockey
for KRIB Radio, Mason City, Iowa
. In 1970 he worked as a disc jockey for KWWL AM-FM-TV in Waterloo, Iowa
, and produced on camera commercials for a local Ford dealer. When attending the University of Iowa he worked as a TV transmitter engineer for KIIN-TV in Iowa City. In 1977, Klemesrud was hired by Syracuse University
in New York as an CMX Systems
editor/engineer for video productions at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications under executive director Henry Baker
and vice chairperson, Kitty Carlisle. The New York State Council on the Arts
granted monies for Synapse Era
, a program for visiting artists who used the facilities for the production of creative video art pieces. Klemesrud worked on productions with artists such as Nam June Paik
. In 1978 Klemesrud was asked to work at WNET
TV (PBS) in New York, NY as CMX editor. In 1979 Klemesrud went to Los Angeles to edit Norman Lear
shows, "The Jeffersons
" and "The Facts of Life
." He also worked for ABC-TV
as CMX videotape editor, and in 1980 editing for CBS-TV. In October, 1982 he worked at Complete Post in Los Angeles, a post production facility for high end television shows, and at Paramount Television
in the late 1980's. Throughout his time in Los Angeles, he mostly worked for ABC-TV and CBS-TV shows or projects, and retired in 1999.
from 1936 to 1974, until they sold to Ben Carter, the publisher of the Forest City Summit, a newspaper in the county seat of Forest City, Iowa
. In 1997, Klemesrud purchased the newspaper while working for ABC-TV in California. He published the Courier from 1997 through 2001. He returned to Iowa in 1999. He sold the Thompson Courier to Kim Norstrud.
. The woman told Klemesrud she would no longer carry on a relationship with him unless he accepted that she was a Scientology member. The woman asked Klemesrud five months later about his sister, Judy Klemesrud http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/iwa/findingaids/html/KlemesrudJudy.htm who worked for the New York Times. Klemesrud later found that she was a member of Scientology's Guardian's Office.
During the 1980s Klemesrud made friends amongst Scientology ex-members and apostates. He also met with parents whose children had been enticed into cults, and had organized to raise awareness about cults and their illegal activities. One of the first members he contacted who helped him with research was Henrietta Crampton, the secretary of the Citizen's Freedom Foundation.http://www.xenu-directory.net/news/latimes19800530.html
Klemesrud later began to share information with the New York Times, and the IRS Criminal Investigation Division
. In 1984, the New York Times published a front page story replete with a picture of Hubbard, telling that former members said Hubbard absconded with millions of dollars from the organization and channeled the funds into private bank accounts in Lichtenstein and Zurich.http://www.lermanet.com/scientologynews/nytimes/scientology-chief-got-millions-071184.html This was the basis for the IRS investigation of Hubbard.http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/la90/la90-6d.html
In 1985 Tom Klemesrud started a computer Bulletin Board System
in Los Angeles called "The Cult Monitor" which ran until 1989. Klemesrud began to receive so many phone calls for help that he turned over the sysop responsibilities to Priscilla Coates, http://www.xenutv.com/panels/coates.htm (former executive director of the Citizen's Freedom Foundation and former director of the Los Angeles Cult Awareness Network
.
. The domain name was "Support.com" and was the Internet service that former Scientologist Dennis Erlich used, as well as many Scientology members.
On December 24, 1994 Dennis Erlich had been posting fair use excerpts of what Scientology calls "confidential materials" (see Xenu Revelation
) to the Los Angeles Valley College BBS. Erlich also used the BBS node to access and post the materials through the Internet service provider
Netcom (USA)
to the newsgroup alt.religion.scientology
. Erlich and Klemesrud were met with harassing e-mails, letters, phone calls and physical confrontations. On December 25, the newsgroup alt.religion.scientology began to receive forged cancellations of posts (attributed to an entity known as the "Cancelpoodle" or "Cancelbunny"), including posts that Dennis Erlich was making in comment on Scientology materials. It was later determined that Scientology was behind this effort.
Klemesrud began receiving e-mails from Scientologist lawyer Helena Kobrin, on behalf of the Religious Technology Center
that both the BBS service Support.com and Dennis Erlich's postings through the ISP, Netcom were copyright infringements and should be removed. Klemesrud replied that he should be presented with evidence that they were in fact copyright infringements. Kobrin also wrote several times to Netcom, demanding they cut off Internet access to Tom Klemesrud's BBS, Support.com. Netcom refused.
On February 8, 1995 Scientology filed a lawsuit, "Religious Technology Center v. Netcom
," and requested a restraining order against Dennis Erlich, Klemesrud's BBS domain, (Support.com) and Netcom. On February 13, Erlich's house was raided by Scientology attorney, Tom Small and seven others. A hearing on February 21 lifted the restraining order against Support.com and Netcom. However, on February 27, Scientology requested an injunction against Netcom and Support.com.
On June 21, 1995, Judge Whyte issued a ruling that refused to dismiss Klemesrud, and Netcom because of an triable issue of fact. On November 21, 1995, Judge Whyte ruled "Plaintiffs have not shown a likelihood of success on the merits of their copyright claims nor irreparable harm absent an injunction against defendants Netcom and Klemesrud."http://w2.eff.org/legal/cases/Scientology_cases/whyte_netcom_112195.order
On August 21, 1996, the suit was settled without Klemesrud having to admit any liability. However a settlement in the amount of $47,500 was paid by his insurance company.http://w2.eff.org/legal/cases/Scientology_cases/960822_klemesrud_settle.announcehttp://docs.law.gwu.edu/facweb/claw/Klem1096.htm
In the summer of 2000 Klemesrud sold the Support.com domain name to "Support.com, Inc."
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act
(DMCA) effectively gave legislative backing to the principles laid down in RTC v. Netcom by codifying its ruling that passive automatic acts shall not become grounds for a finding of online copyright infringement.http://www.legalservicesindia.com/articles/isp_in_us.htm
by Scientology, as they tried to frame Klemesrud for attacking a female in his apartment who had drugged him with chloral hydrate on
January 14, 1995. Klemesrud was arrested on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon and released on $30,000 bail the next morning, while the woman was allowed to leave the scene without any examination. A police detective was subsequently unable to contact her. The District Attorney rejected the charges, refusing to prosecute.
Klemesrud's account of the frame up was posted to the newsgroup on January 15 by Dennis Erlich, and information from a police report of the incident, contained in a file from the INCOMM system was posted anonymously by a poster known as "AB" to the newsgroup alt.religion.scientology on January 23.http://www.lermanet2.com/scientologynews/skeptics-society95.html#MissBlood "AB" was subsequently identified by Caltech as Thomas Gerard
Rummelhart. Ms Blood was identified as Linda Woolard.
In an effort to find out who breached the file that corroborated the attempted frame up of Klemesrud, Scientology enlisted the Los Angeles Police Department
to seek help from Interpol, alleging that it was a hacker. (See Second compromise
) Klemesrud wrote a letter to the LAPD that Scientology already knew and silenced the anonymous poster. http://www.lermanet.com/cos/arswir110997.html In 2002, Keith Henson
compiled what was known of the story to that
time,http://www.holysmoke.org/kh/kh630.htm and a year later Tom
Klemesrud executed a declaration
{http://www.operatingthetan.com/tomklem.pdf about being dosed with
chloral hydrate
.
It has generally been agreed that this sort of seizure is unconstitutional. Judge Whyte in his motion permitted fair use Internet posting, which has been the precedence of judges through the history of Scientology's accusations of copyright infringements about their so-called "confidential materials."
In a subsequent raid in 1995, Scientology requested a Writ of Seizure to raid the house of ex-member Arnaldo Lerma
because of his posting confidential materials, including the Xenu
story to the newsgroup alt.religion.scientology. Judge Leonie Brinkema of the Eastern District of Virginia crossed out language in this particular Writ, which disallowed Scientology to freely enjoin other parties for search and seizure at their discretion.http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Fishman/Lerma/lerma-raid.html
Critics agree that this is a manner in which Scientology practices Fair Game
- a policy used to harass, threaten or silence individuals who try to make fair use of so-called "Scientology scripture." (See Scientology versus the Internet
).
United States
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publisher and writer
Writer
A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....
.
Personal
Tom Theo Klemesrud was born in Thompson, IowaThompson, Iowa
Thompson is a city in Winnebago County, Iowa, United States. The population was 596 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Thompson is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land....
to Glee (1909-1986) and Theo S. Klemesrud http://www.legis.iowa.gov/Legislators/legislatorAllYears.aspx?PID=1853 (1902-1995). His siblings include, Judy Klemesrud and Candace K. Klemesrud (1947-1989), both whom are deceased. He attended the Thompson Community High School and graduated from the University of Iowa
University of Iowa
The University of Iowa is a public state-supported research university located in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. It is the oldest public university in the state. The university is organized into eleven colleges granting undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees...
in 1973 with a degree in film production. He is a member of the University of Iowa Presidents Club.http://www.uifoundation.org/pc/ In 1974 he attended the USC School of Cinematic Arts
USC School of Cinematic Arts
The USC School of Cinematic Arts, until 2006 named the School of Cinema-Television , is a film school within the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California. It is the oldest and largest such school in the United States, established in 1929 as a joint venture with the Academy of...
graduate program for one year.
Radio and television broadcasting
Klemesrud worked in radio and television broadcasting since 1968. While attending high school in Thompson, IowaThompson, Iowa
Thompson is a city in Winnebago County, Iowa, United States. The population was 596 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Thompson is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land....
, Klemesrud was a disc jockey
Disc jockey
A disc jockey, also known as DJ, is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience. Originally, "disc" referred to phonograph records, not the later Compact Discs. Today, the term includes all forms of music playback, no matter the medium.There are several types of disc jockeys...
for KRIB Radio, Mason City, Iowa
Mason City, Iowa
Mason City is the county seat of Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, United States. The population was 28,079 in the 2010 census, a decline from 29,172 in the 2000 census. The Mason City Micropolitan Statistical Area includes all of Cerro Gordo and Worth counties....
. In 1970 he worked as a disc jockey for KWWL AM-FM-TV in Waterloo, Iowa
Waterloo, Iowa
Waterloo is a city in and the county seat of Black Hawk County, Iowa, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census the population decreased by 0.5% to 68,406. Waterloo is part of the Waterloo – Cedar Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area, and is the more populous of the two...
, and produced on camera commercials for a local Ford dealer. When attending the University of Iowa he worked as a TV transmitter engineer for KIIN-TV in Iowa City. In 1977, Klemesrud was hired by Syracuse University
Syracuse University
Syracuse University is a private research university located in Syracuse, New York, United States. Its roots can be traced back to Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, founded by the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1832, which also later founded Genesee College...
in New York as an CMX Systems
CMX Systems
CMX Editing Systems was a company founded jointly by CBS and Memorex, that developed some of the very first computerized systems for linear and non-linear editing of videotape for post production...
editor/engineer for video productions at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications under executive director Henry Baker
Henry Baker
Henry Baker may refer to:* Henry Baker , English*Henry Baker *Henry Williams Baker, hymn writer*Henry Aaron Baker, architect* Henry Baker...
and vice chairperson, Kitty Carlisle. The New York State Council on the Arts
New York State Council on the Arts
The New York State Council on the Arts is an arts council serving the U.S. state of New York. It was established in 1960 through a bill introduced in the New York State Legislature by New York State Senator MacNeil Mitchell , with backing from Governor Nelson Rockefeller, and began its work in 1961...
granted monies for Synapse Era
CitrusTV
CitrusTV is the completely student-run television studio of Syracuse University and the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, New York. It was founded in 1970 and has around 350 student members....
, a program for visiting artists who used the facilities for the production of creative video art pieces. Klemesrud worked on productions with artists such as Nam June Paik
Nam June Paik
Nam June Paik was a Korean American artist. He worked with a variety of media and is considered to be the first video artist....
. In 1978 Klemesrud was asked to work at WNET
WNET
WNET, channel 13 is a non-commercial educational public television station licensed to Newark, New Jersey. With its signal covering the New York metropolitan area, WNET is a primary station of the Public Broadcasting Service and a primary provider of PBS programming...
TV (PBS) in New York, NY as CMX editor. In 1979 Klemesrud went to Los Angeles to edit Norman Lear
Norman Lear
Norman Milton Lear is an American television writer and producer who produced such 1970s sitcoms as All in the Family, Sanford and Son, One Day at a Time, The Jeffersons, Good Times and Maude...
shows, "The Jeffersons
The Jeffersons
The Jeffersons is an American sitcom that was broadcast on CBS from January 18, 1975, through June 25, 1985, lasting 11 seasons and a total of 253 episodes. The show was produced by the T.A.T. Communications Company from 1975–1982 and by Embassy Television from 1982-1985...
" and "The Facts of Life
The Facts of Life (TV series)
The Facts of Life is an American sitcom that originally ran on the NBC television network from August 24, 1979 to May 7, 1988. A spin-off of the sitcom Diff'rent Strokes, the series' premise focused on Edna Garrett as she becomes a housemother at the fictional Eastland School, a prestigious...
." He also worked for ABC-TV
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
as CMX videotape editor, and in 1980 editing for CBS-TV. In October, 1982 he worked at Complete Post in Los Angeles, a post production facility for high end television shows, and at Paramount Television
Paramount Television
Paramount Television was an American television production/distribution company that was active from January 1, 1968 to August 27, 2006.Its successor is CBS Television Studios, formerly CBS Paramount Television...
in the late 1980's. Throughout his time in Los Angeles, he mostly worked for ABC-TV and CBS-TV shows or projects, and retired in 1999.
Thompson Courier and Rake Register
Klemesrud's parents published the Thompson Courier and Rake RegisterThompson Courier and Rake Register
The Thompson Courier and Rake Register is a Thursday, weekly, tabloid, newspaper serving the towns of Thompson, Iowa and Rake, Iowa in Winnebago County, Iowa....
from 1936 to 1974, until they sold to Ben Carter, the publisher of the Forest City Summit, a newspaper in the county seat of Forest City, Iowa
Forest City, Iowa
Forest City is a city in Hancock and Winnebago Counties in the U.S. state of Iowa, and the county seat of Winnebago County. The population was 4,151 in the 2010 census, a decline from the 4,362 population in the 2000 census....
. In 1997, Klemesrud purchased the newspaper while working for ABC-TV in California. He published the Courier from 1997 through 2001. He returned to Iowa in 1999. He sold the Thompson Courier to Kim Norstrud.
Anti-Scientology activism
Klemesrud never joined Scientology, although he met a member in October, 1982 when he was invited to go out with some friends. He took a personality test, known as the Oxford Capacity AnalysisOxford Capacity Analysis
The Oxford Capacity Analysis , also known as the American Personality Analysis, is a list of questions which is advertised as being a personality test and that is administered for free by the Church of Scientology. The OCA test is offered by the Church of Scientology online, at its local churches,...
. The woman told Klemesrud she would no longer carry on a relationship with him unless he accepted that she was a Scientology member. The woman asked Klemesrud five months later about his sister, Judy Klemesrud http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/iwa/findingaids/html/KlemesrudJudy.htm who worked for the New York Times. Klemesrud later found that she was a member of Scientology's Guardian's Office.
During the 1980s Klemesrud made friends amongst Scientology ex-members and apostates. He also met with parents whose children had been enticed into cults, and had organized to raise awareness about cults and their illegal activities. One of the first members he contacted who helped him with research was Henrietta Crampton, the secretary of the Citizen's Freedom Foundation.http://www.xenu-directory.net/news/latimes19800530.html
Klemesrud later began to share information with the New York Times, and the IRS Criminal Investigation Division
IRS Criminal Investigation Division
Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation investigates potential criminal violations of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code and related financial crimes in a manner intended to foster confidence in the tax system and compliance with the law...
. In 1984, the New York Times published a front page story replete with a picture of Hubbard, telling that former members said Hubbard absconded with millions of dollars from the organization and channeled the funds into private bank accounts in Lichtenstein and Zurich.http://www.lermanet.com/scientologynews/nytimes/scientology-chief-got-millions-071184.html This was the basis for the IRS investigation of Hubbard.http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/la90/la90-6d.html
In 1985 Tom Klemesrud started a computer Bulletin Board System
Bulletin board system
A Bulletin Board System, or BBS, is a computer system running software that allows users to connect and log in to the system using a terminal program. Once logged in, a user can perform functions such as uploading and downloading software and data, reading news and bulletins, and exchanging...
in Los Angeles called "The Cult Monitor" which ran until 1989. Klemesrud began to receive so many phone calls for help that he turned over the sysop responsibilities to Priscilla Coates, http://www.xenutv.com/panels/coates.htm (former executive director of the Citizen's Freedom Foundation and former director of the Los Angeles Cult Awareness Network
Cult Awareness Network
The Cult Awareness Network was founded in the wake of the November 18, 1978 deaths of members of the group Peoples Temple and assassination of Congressman Leo J. Ryan in Jonestown, Guyana. CAN is now owned and operated by associates of the Church of Scientology, an organization that the original...
.
Scientology versus Klemesrud
In 1992 Klemesrud created a multi-line BBS as a school project for the Los Angeles Valley CollegeLos Angeles Valley College
Los Angeles Valley College is a community college located in the Valley Glen district of Los Angeles, California in the east-central San Fernando Valley. The school is a part of the Los Angeles Community College District....
. The domain name was "Support.com" and was the Internet service that former Scientologist Dennis Erlich used, as well as many Scientology members.
On December 24, 1994 Dennis Erlich had been posting fair use excerpts of what Scientology calls "confidential materials" (see Xenu Revelation
Scientology versus the Internet
"Scientology versus the Internet" refers to a number of disputes relating to the Church of Scientology's efforts to suppress material critical of Scientology on the Internet through the use of lawsuits and legal threats. In late 1994, the Church of Scientology began using various legal tactics to...
) to the Los Angeles Valley College BBS. Erlich also used the BBS node to access and post the materials through the Internet service provider
Internet service provider
An Internet service provider is a company that provides access to the Internet. Access ISPs directly connect customers to the Internet using copper wires, wireless or fiber-optic connections. Hosting ISPs lease server space for smaller businesses and host other people servers...
Netcom (USA)
Netcom (USA)
NETCOM On-Line Communication Services, Inc. was an Internet service provider headquartered in San Jose, California.It was established in 1988 by Bob Rieger, an information systems engineer for Lockheed and Bill Gitow of System V. Netcom started off in San Jose, California as a service to allow...
to the newsgroup alt.religion.scientology
Alt.religion.scientology
The newsgroup alt.religion.scientology is a Usenet newsgroup started in 1991 to discuss the controversial beliefs of Scientology, as well as the Church of Scientology, which claims exclusive intellectual property rights thereto and is viewed by many as a dangerous cult...
. Erlich and Klemesrud were met with harassing e-mails, letters, phone calls and physical confrontations. On December 25, the newsgroup alt.religion.scientology began to receive forged cancellations of posts (attributed to an entity known as the "Cancelpoodle" or "Cancelbunny"), including posts that Dennis Erlich was making in comment on Scientology materials. It was later determined that Scientology was behind this effort.
Klemesrud began receiving e-mails from Scientologist lawyer Helena Kobrin, on behalf of the Religious Technology Center
Religious Technology Center
The Religious Technology Center is a Californian non-profit corporation. RTC was founded in 1982 by the Church of Scientology in order to control and oversee the use of all of the trademarks, symbols and texts of Scientology and Dianetics, including the copyrighted works of Scientology founder and...
that both the BBS service Support.com and Dennis Erlich's postings through the ISP, Netcom were copyright infringements and should be removed. Klemesrud replied that he should be presented with evidence that they were in fact copyright infringements. Kobrin also wrote several times to Netcom, demanding they cut off Internet access to Tom Klemesrud's BBS, Support.com. Netcom refused.
On February 8, 1995 Scientology filed a lawsuit, "Religious Technology Center v. Netcom
Religious Technology Center v. Netcom
Religious Technology Center v. Netcom On-Line Communication Services, Inc., 907 F. Supp. 1361 , is a U.S. district court case about whether the operator of a computer bulletin board service and Internet access provider that allows that BBS to reach the Internet should be liable for copyright...
," and requested a restraining order against Dennis Erlich, Klemesrud's BBS domain, (Support.com) and Netcom. On February 13, Erlich's house was raided by Scientology attorney, Tom Small and seven others. A hearing on February 21 lifted the restraining order against Support.com and Netcom. However, on February 27, Scientology requested an injunction against Netcom and Support.com.
On June 21, 1995, Judge Whyte issued a ruling that refused to dismiss Klemesrud, and Netcom because of an triable issue of fact. On November 21, 1995, Judge Whyte ruled "Plaintiffs have not shown a likelihood of success on the merits of their copyright claims nor irreparable harm absent an injunction against defendants Netcom and Klemesrud."http://w2.eff.org/legal/cases/Scientology_cases/whyte_netcom_112195.order
On August 21, 1996, the suit was settled without Klemesrud having to admit any liability. However a settlement in the amount of $47,500 was paid by his insurance company.http://w2.eff.org/legal/cases/Scientology_cases/960822_klemesrud_settle.announcehttp://docs.law.gwu.edu/facweb/claw/Klem1096.htm
In the summer of 2000 Klemesrud sold the Support.com domain name to "Support.com, Inc."
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act
Digital Millennium Copyright Act
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act is a United States copyright law that implements two 1996 treaties of the World Intellectual Property Organization . It criminalizes production and dissemination of technology, devices, or services intended to circumvent measures that control access to...
(DMCA) effectively gave legislative backing to the principles laid down in RTC v. Netcom by codifying its ruling that passive automatic acts shall not become grounds for a finding of online copyright infringement.http://www.legalservicesindia.com/articles/isp_in_us.htm
Miss Blood Incident
During the litigation against Klemesrud in February, 1995, an incident occurred as a result of an intelligence breach of a file from the internal Scientology computer system, known as INCOMM, or the International Network of Computer Organized Management. The incident presented evidence of Fair GameFair Game (Scientology)
The term Fair Game is used to describe policies and practices carried out by the Church of Scientology towards people and groups it perceives as its enemies. Founder L. Ron Hubbard established the policy in the 1960s, in response to criticism both from within and outside his organization...
by Scientology, as they tried to frame Klemesrud for attacking a female in his apartment who had drugged him with chloral hydrate on
January 14, 1995. Klemesrud was arrested on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon and released on $30,000 bail the next morning, while the woman was allowed to leave the scene without any examination. A police detective was subsequently unable to contact her. The District Attorney rejected the charges, refusing to prosecute.
Klemesrud's account of the frame up was posted to the newsgroup on January 15 by Dennis Erlich, and information from a police report of the incident, contained in a file from the INCOMM system was posted anonymously by a poster known as "AB" to the newsgroup alt.religion.scientology on January 23.http://www.lermanet2.com/scientologynews/skeptics-society95.html#MissBlood "AB" was subsequently identified by Caltech as Thomas Gerard
Rummelhart. Ms Blood was identified as Linda Woolard.
In an effort to find out who breached the file that corroborated the attempted frame up of Klemesrud, Scientology enlisted the Los Angeles Police Department
Los Angeles Police Department
The Los Angeles Police Department is the police department of the city of Los Angeles, California. With just under 10,000 officers and more than 3,000 civilian staff, covering an area of with a population of more than 4.1 million people, it is the third largest local law enforcement agency in...
to seek help from Interpol, alleging that it was a hacker. (See Second compromise
Penet remailer
The Penet remailer was a pseudonymous remailer operated by Johan "Julf" Helsingius of Finland from 1993 to 1996. Its initial creation stemmed from an argument in a Finnish newsgroup over whether people should be required to tie their real name to their online communications...
) Klemesrud wrote a letter to the LAPD that Scientology already knew and silenced the anonymous poster. http://www.lermanet.com/cos/arswir110997.html In 2002, Keith Henson
Keith Henson
Howard Keith Henson is an American electrical engineer and writer on life extension, cryonics, memetics and evolutionary psychology....
compiled what was known of the story to that
time,http://www.holysmoke.org/kh/kh630.htm and a year later Tom
Klemesrud executed a declaration
{http://www.operatingthetan.com/tomklem.pdf about being dosed with
chloral hydrate
Chloral hydrate
Chloral hydrate is a sedative and hypnotic drug as well as a chemical reagent and precursor. The name chloral hydrate indicates that it is formed from chloral by the addition of one molecule of water. Its chemical formula is C2H3Cl3O2....
.
Writ of Seizure and Scientology
Klemesrud was included in a Writ of Seizure along with Dennis Erlich and Netcom, although never raided.http://www.eff.org/legal/cases/Scientology_cases/ Judge Ronald M. Whyte of the Northern District of California later rescinded the Writ in this case.http://www.eff.org/legal/cases/Scientology_cases/dramatis.personaeIt has generally been agreed that this sort of seizure is unconstitutional. Judge Whyte in his motion permitted fair use Internet posting, which has been the precedence of judges through the history of Scientology's accusations of copyright infringements about their so-called "confidential materials."
In a subsequent raid in 1995, Scientology requested a Writ of Seizure to raid the house of ex-member Arnaldo Lerma
Arnaldo Lerma
Arnaldo Pagliarini Lerma is an American writer and activist, a former Scientologist, and critic of Scientology, who has appeared in television, media and radio interviews...
because of his posting confidential materials, including the Xenu
Xenu
Xenu ,also spelled Xemu, was, according to the founder of Scientology L. Ron Hubbard, the dictator of the "Galactic Confederacy" who, 75 million years ago, brought billions of his people to Earth in a DC-8-like spacecraft, stacked them around volcanoes and killed them using hydrogen bombs...
story to the newsgroup alt.religion.scientology. Judge Leonie Brinkema of the Eastern District of Virginia crossed out language in this particular Writ, which disallowed Scientology to freely enjoin other parties for search and seizure at their discretion.http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Fishman/Lerma/lerma-raid.html
Critics agree that this is a manner in which Scientology practices Fair Game
Fair Game (Scientology)
The term Fair Game is used to describe policies and practices carried out by the Church of Scientology towards people and groups it perceives as its enemies. Founder L. Ron Hubbard established the policy in the 1960s, in response to criticism both from within and outside his organization...
- a policy used to harass, threaten or silence individuals who try to make fair use of so-called "Scientology scripture." (See Scientology versus the Internet
Scientology versus the Internet
"Scientology versus the Internet" refers to a number of disputes relating to the Church of Scientology's efforts to suppress material critical of Scientology on the Internet through the use of lawsuits and legal threats. In late 1994, the Church of Scientology began using various legal tactics to...
).
Writings
- "Clear Agenda for Sen. Grassley in 1998: report back"
- "IRS Refused to look at evidence of IRC 501(C)(3) violation"
External links
- "IMDb" Tom Klemesrud
- Archive of the Thompson Courier and Rake Register" Tom Klemesrud, Publisher 1997-2001.
- "UI graduate gives film equipment to UI department of communication studies" The University of Iowa News Services
- "The Church of Scientology vs. Dennis Erlich, Tom Klemesrud and Netcom" Page created by Ron Newman
- alt.scientology.war by Wendy Grossman, Wired Magazine, December, 1995
- "What Really Happened at Scientology's secret INCOMM facility" Account of former member Dan Garvin
- Scientology v. the Internet: Free Speech & Copyright Infringement on the Information Super-Highway, by Jim LippardJim LippardJames Joseph Lippard is an American skeptic and activist freethinker who has written and spoken widely.Lippard works for Global Crossing as its head of information security....
and Jeff Jacobsen, Skeptic magazine vol. 3, no. 3, 1995, pp. 35-41. Only published account of "Miss Blood" incident. - Tom Klemesrud's student films.
- Pictorial History.